Necessaries
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
Of a wife, food, clothing, articles of utility and of ornament, suitable to maintain her according to the estate and rank of her husband.
See 47 Minn. 250, 28 Am. St. Rep. 362, 49 N. W. 981.
Of an infant, whatever a court or jury may think in each case suitable and proper in reference to his condition and station in life.
See 40 Neb. 195, 42 Am. St. Rep. 665, 26 L. R. A. 177, 58 N. W. 852.