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DOMESTIC RELATIONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOMESTIC RELATIONS , a See also:

term used to See also:express the legal relations subsisting between the various See also:units that comprise the See also:family or domestic See also:group. Those units which go to build up the domestic structure of See also:modern society are See also:parent, See also:child, See also:husband, wife, See also:master and servant. The See also:law which deals with the various relations subsisting between them is made up largely of the law of agency, of See also:contract and of See also:tort.

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