Aliment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch Law. To support; to provide with necessaries.
Paterson, Comp. §§ 845,,850.
Maintenance; support; an allowance from the husband's estate for the support of the wife. Paterson, Comp. § 893. — ^In Civil Law. Food and other things necessary to the support of life; money allowed for the purpose of procuring these.
Dig. 50. 16.
43. ——In Common Law. To supply with necessaries.
3 Edw. Ch. (N. Y.) 194.
ALIMENTA (Lat.) In the civil law. Aliments; means of support, including food (cibaria), clothing (vestitus), and habitation (habitatio).
Dig. 34. 1. 6.