The family, as a legal person against others, is to be represented by the man as its head. Further, it is he to whom acquisition from without, care for its needs, and the disposition and administration of the family’s resources chiefly belong. These resources are common property, so that no member of the family has particular property, but each has a right to what is held in common. This right, however, and the disposition belonging to the head of the family, can come into collision, since what is still immediate, in the family, in the ethical disposition (§ 158) is open to particularization and contingency.