The Family
“as Corporation”
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Family · household · the family · the family as corporation
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The household unit formed by man, woman, and children, treated as more fundamental than the political state.
since man is by nature a pairing creature even more than he is a political creature, inasmuch as the family is an earlier and more fundamental institution than the State, and the procreation of offspring a more general characteristic of the animal creation.
Ancient Law
The kin group treated in Roman legal theory as a perpetual corporate body distinct from its individual members.
The Family, in fact, was a Corporation;
Succession in corporations is necessarily universal, and the family was a corporation.
The capacity or office is here considered apart from the particular person who from time to time may occupy it, and, this capacity being perpetual, the series of individuals who fill it are clothed with the leading attribute of Corporations—Perpetuity Now in the older theory of Roman Law the individual bore to the family precisely the same relation which in the rationale of English jurisprudence a …