Provisions

Food for man; victuals. Corn on the ear in the shuck is provisions within the meaning of a constitutional provision with reference to exemptions; Cochran v. Harvey, 88 Ga. 352, 14 8. E. 580; Atkinson v. Gatcher, 23 Ark. 103; but the word does not include a milch cow; Wilson v. Mc- Millan, 80 Ga. 733, 6 S. E. 182; nor cotton; Butler v. Shiver, 79 Ga. 172, 4 S. E. 115. It has been held to mean only articles of food; Crooke v. Slack, 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 177. The sale of unwholesome provisions is a misdemeanor; 2 East, PI.

Cr. 822; 3 Maule & S. 10; 4 Camp. 10.

And the rule is that the seller impliedly warrants that they are wholesome; 3 Bla. Com. 166. See Adulteration; Groceries; Sale^ Warranty; Food and Drug Acts. In Early English Law. A terra used in the reign of Henry III. to designate enactments of the King in Council, perhaps less solemn than statutes. Thus, “the Provisions of Merton.” The term “statutes” was a later term, with a changed conception of the solemnity of a statute. The term “statute” is one that cannot easily be defined. It came into use in Edward I.'s reign, supplanting “provisions,” which is characteristic of Henry III.’s reign, which had supplanted “assize,” characteristic of the reigns of Henry II., Richard and John. Maitland, 2 Sel. Essays in Anglo-Am.

Leg. Hist. 80.

Provisions of Oxford were legislative provisions (1258) forbidding the Chancellor to issue writs, other than those “of course*