808, 8 Sup. Ct. 505, 81 L. Ed. 468; U. 8S v. Germaine, U. 8. 511, 25 L. Ed. 482.—Head of a family. A term used in homestead and exemption laws to designate a person who maintains a family; a householder. Not necessarily a husband or father, but any person who has charge of, supe. and manages the rs of the houseold or the collective body of persons residing together and constituting the family. See Duncan v. Frank, 8 Mo. App. : Jarboe v. Jarboe, 106 Mo. App. 459, 78 S. W. 1168; Whalen v. Cadman, 11 Jowa. 227: Brokaw v. Ogle, 170 Ill. 115, 48 N. B. 894; Bennett v. Georgia