"The status of an individual, used in a legal sense, is the legal relation in which that individual stands to the rest of the community." 1

"These legal relations may be various. One who is under age does not occupy the same relation to the rest of the community as one who is an adult; the relations of a single man differ from those of one who is married; one who is competent to transact business occupies a different relation from one who is not; a legitimate or adopted child from one who is not; a ward from one who is not under guardianship; a fiduciary from one who is acting for himself, etc. All these and others that need not be enumerated are instances of status." 2