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

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Reasonably convenient.

Alabama & V. Ry. Co. v. Odeneal, 73 Miss. 34, 19 South. 202.

Tills word lias great flexibility of meaning. It is used to express mere convenience, or that which is indispensable to the accomplishment of a purpose, St. Louis, J. & C. U. Co. v. Trustees, 43 111.

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It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another; Mc Culloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat (U. S.) 414, 4 L. Ed. 579. As used in a code exempting the wages of a laboring man when necessary for the support of his family in whole or in part, it does not mean that his wages must be absolutely indispensable to the bare subsistence of the family and that the family could not live without them, but is used in a broader and less rigid sense looking rather to the comfort and well being of the family, and contemplates the furnishing to it whatever is necessary to its comfort and well-being as distinguished from luxuries.

Cushing v. Quigley, 11 Mont. 577, 29 Pac. 337.

Witness fees are not necessary disburse merits where witnesses were not called at the trial, unless the party shows why he did not call them; Kohn v. R. Co., 8 Mlsc. 421, 28 N. Y. Snpp. 663. Necessary material for the construction of a railroad includes the railroad as a completed structure, station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn outs, and water tanks.

U. S. v. R. Co., 150 U. S. 1, 14 Sup. Ct. 11, 37 L. Ed. 975.

Necessary help

A physician may be appointed by a warden of a state prison under Necessary implication. In construing a will, not a natural necessity, but so strong a probability that a contrary construction cannot be supported.

1 V. & B. 466.

See Eminent Domain.

See Eminent Domain.