HOUSEKEEPE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  HOUSEKEEPER. One who occupies a house.
       2. A person who occupies every room in the house, under a lease, except 
  one, which is reserved for his landlord, who pays all the taxes, is not a 
  housekeeper. 1 Chit. Rep. 502. Nor is a person a housekeeper, who takes a 
  house, which be afterwards underlets to another, whom the landlord refuses 
  to accept as his tenant; in this case, the under-tenant aid the, taxes and 


  let to the tenant the, first floor of the house, and the rent was paid for 
  the whole house to the tenant, who paid it to the landlord. Id. note. 
       3. In order to make the party a house-keeper, he must be in actual 
  possession of the house; 1 Chit. Rep. 288 and must occupy a whole house. 1 
  Chit. Rep. 316. See 1 Barn. & Cresw. 178; 2 T. R. 406; 1 Bott, 5; 3 Petersd, 
  Ab. 103, note; 2 Mart. Lo. R. 313.