Provisions
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
Eat cattle are provisions, or munitions of war, within the true intent and meaning of the act of congress of July 6, 1812, prohibiting trade with the enemies of the United States.
United States v. Barber, 9 Cranch, 243; United States v. Sheldon, 2 Wlwat. 119.
Corn may be deemed embraced by a statute exempting " provisions on hand for family use " from execution. Atkinson a.
Gatcher, 2^ Ark. 101.
The provisions furnished a ship, strictly considered, are confined to such articles as enter into the food or subsistence for hands and passengers; while stores is a more general term, and may embrace wood and coaL Crooke v. Slack, 20 Wend. 177. A bequest of "corn, fodder, meat, and other provisions on hand," includes wine and brandy which the testator had laid in and provided for his own use.
Mooney v. Evans, 6 Ired. Eg. 363.
The nominations to benefices by the pope were called provisions, and those who were so nominated were termed provisors. Various statutes were passed in the reign of Edward III., forbidding all ecclesiastical persons from purchasing these provisions: see, in particular, the Stats. 25 Edw. IH. st.
6, and 27 Edw. III. st.
1, which are preeminently called the statutes of provisors.
Brown.