Separate Maintenance
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The maintenance of a woman by her husband on an agreement to live separately. An allowance made by a husband to his vnle for her separate support and maintenance.
Bouvier. See 2 Rop. Husb. & Wife, 267 et seq.; 2 Steph. Comm. 309.