Support
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of bis house upon the wall of an adjoining building owned by another person.
3 Kent 435.
See Washb. Easem. A right to the support of one’s land so as to prevent its falling into an excavation made by the owner of adjacent lands. This support is of two kinds, lateral and subjacent. Lateral support is the right of land to be supported by the land which lies next' to it. Subjacent support is the right of land to be supported by the land which lies under it. See Lateral Support; Mines and Mining. Support is also generally used to mean articles for the sustenance of the family, as food, etc.
Grant v. Dabney, 19 Kan. 389, 27 Am. Rep. 125.
See Family.
See Family.