Necessaries

Things indispensable, or things proper and useful, for the sustenance of humanlife. This is arelative term, and its meaning will contract or expand according to the situation and social condition of the person referred to. In reference to the contracts of infants, this term is not used in its strictest sense, nor limited to that which is required te sustain life. Those things which are proper and suitable to each individual, according to his circumstances and condition in life, are necessaries, if not supplied from some other source.

12 Cush. 513. See, also, 133 Mass. 504; 114 Mass. 424; 3 C. P. Div. 401; 81 Conn. 306.

In the case of ships the term “necessaries” means such things as are fit and proper for the service in which the ship is engaged, and such as the owner, being a priident man, would have ordered if present; e. g., anchors, rigging, repairs, victuals.

Maude & P. Shipp. 71, 118.

The master may hypothecate the ship for necessaries supplied abroad 80 as ta bind the owner. Sweot. Necessarium est quod non potest aliter se habere. That is necessary which cannot be otherwise.