单词 | family council |
释义 | family counciln. 1. A meeting of the members of a family to resolve problems or decide questions of common interest. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1797 Posthumous Daughter I. xliii. 221 We have had a little family council to know how to act. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford iii. 51 The state of the remainder wine was examined into in a family council. 1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond I. v. 88 The anxious family councils which were held in that parsonage parlour, during the time of that daughter's courtship. 1902 Little Folks 251/1 Ted called a family council in his carpentering shed. 1962 Ebony Nov. 132/2 Hatcher has devised a unique ‘family council’ system... Each child..votes on decisions affecting them, with father reserving the veto right. 2009 J. Ustach Walking into Hug xxxi. 76 Hold a family council to resolve a problem or to discuss family business. 2. Civil Law. An advisory jury aiding the court in a family law matter. Cf. family meeting n. 2. ΚΠ 1806 W. D. Evans tr. H. F. d'Aguesseau in W. D. Evans tr. R. J. Pothier Treat. Law of Obligations II. xix. 627 Those domestics whom the disposition of the civil law required to be called, in default of relations, to a family council [Fr. Conseil de Famille], and whom the praetor consulted upon the interest of pupils. 1842 W. Macpherson Treat. Law Infants II. xliii. 575 A tutor dative is appointed under the Code Civil, by a family council, consisting of the justice of peace of the domicile, and the six nearest relatives. 1904 Michigan Law Rev. 3 118 The family council is entitled to appoint a protutor when he has not been appointed by those who have a right to elect a guardian for minors. 1965 Guardian 25 Aug. 5/1 The under-16s..will be dealt with by Family Councils—appointed by local authorities and composed of social workers, teachers, doctors, and others experienced in dealing with children. 2005 R. Emerton et al. Women’s Human Rights xviii. 278 [In Belgian law] the appointment of its [sc. an illegitimate child's] guardian is a matter for the family council which is presided over by the District Judge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1797 |
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