FAMILIA

familia (f[schwa]-mil-ee-[schwa]), n. [Latin] Roman law. 1. All persons, free and slave, in the power of a paterfamilias. See PATERFAMILIAS. 2. One’s legal relations through and with one’s family, including all property, ancestral privileges, and duties. “The testator conveyed to him outright his whole ‘familia,’ that is, all the rights he enjoyed over and through […]