Pin-Money
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A cui Tent term for a pecuniary allowance from a husband to his wife, for her personal expenses, for dress, incidental expenditures, and pocket-money. In England, where settlements of pecuniary affairs between husband and wife are made in more detail, and come oftener before the courts for adjudication than in this country, this term has been drawn in question, in some of the decisions. The allowance is said not to be a gift from the husband to the wife, out and out; it is not to be considered like money set apart for the sole and separate use of the wife, during coverture, excluding the jus mariti, but is a sum set apart for a specific purpose. It is due to the wife, in virtue of a particular arrangement, and is payable by the husband by force of that arrangement only, and for that specific purpose, and no other; also, the husband may find his wife in apparel, instead of paying her this apparel-money, as it may be called.
Howard v. Digby, 8 Bligh, n. s. 269.