Aliment
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Scotch Law. To support; to provide with necessaries. Paterson, Comp. §§ 845,,850. Maintenance; support; an allowance from the husband's estate for the support of the wife. Paterson, Comp. § 893. — ^In Civil Law. Food and other things necessary to the support of life; money allowed for the purpose of procuring these. Dig. 50. 16. 43. —
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Scotch Law. To support; to provide with necessaries. Paterson, Coinp. §§ 845, 850. Maintenance; support; an allowance from the husband's estate for the support of the wife. Paterson, Comp. § S93. In Civil Law. Food and other things necessary to the support of life; money allowed In Common Law. To supply with necessaries, rurcell \. rurcell, 3 Edw. Ch. (N. Y.) 194. ALIMENTA (Lat. aloe, to support). Thirds necessary to sustain life. Under the term are included food, clothing, and a house; water also, it is said, in those regions where water is sold; Calvinus, Lex.; Dig. 50. 16. 43.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In Scots law. To support or maintain; support or maintenance; a fund of maintenance.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Scotch law. To maintain, support, provide for; to provide with necessiries. As a noun, maintenance, support; an allowance from the husbind’s estate for the support of the wife. Paters. Comp. §§ 845, 850, 893.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
In Scotch law, to give support to a person unable to support himself.