Aliment
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
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.