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211 (1883); 1 Gray, 367; 39 N. J. E. 435. 3Insley «. Shepard, 31 F. B. 872 (1887), Blodgett, J.; 111. Act. 28 March, 1883, § 106. ' Manis v. State, 3 Heisk. 315 (1871). ° Fassett v. Eoxbury, 55 Vt. 654 (1883). ^ Kellogg V. Inhabitants of Northampton, 4 Gray, 67 (1855). ' Hawes v. Clement, 64 Wis. 152 (1885). NEATr "Beeves" may include neat stock, but all " neat st6ck " are not beeves.' IirECESSAEIES.2 Refers to things es-. sential or proper for the support of a wife, infant, or ward, and to the maintenance of a vessel. 1. In the rule as to supplying a wife or an infant, and recovering from the husband, parent), or guardian, " necessaries " is not used in its strictest sense, nor limited to that which is required to sustain life; Things proper and suitable to each individual, according to his circumstances and condition in life, are necessaries, if not supplied from some other source.' It is not desirable to attempt to prescribe a universal rule for the specific determination of what arp and what are not necessaries. In a general way, it may be said that whatever naturally and reasonably tends to relieve distress, or materially and in some essential particular to promote comfort, either of body or^nind, may be deemed' to be a necessary, for which a wife, under proper circumstances, may pledge her husband's credit. Each case is to be determined by its own circumstances.* See Husband. The necessaries for which a minor may bind himself are for suitable food, shelter, clothing, washing, medicine, medical attendance, and education. But what is proper in quantity and quality depends upon what the court or jury may think, in each case, regard being had to the condition and station in life.* Cf. Want. 3. To bring an article within the description of necessaries for a vessel it need not appear that the voyage could not by any possibility be made without the article. It is sufficient if the article forms a part of the natural and reasonable outfit of the vessel, or of the business in which she is engaged.* Those things which pertain to the navigation of the vessel, and which are directly incidental to and connected with her navi- ' Castello V. State, 36 Tex. 324 (1871); Hubotter v. State, 32 id. 484 (1870). ^ L. necessanus, needful. s Davis V. Caldwell, 12 Gush. 513 (1853), Shaw, C. J. * Conant v. Burnbam, 133 Mass. 504 (1882), C. Allen, J.; Hamilton u. Lane, 138 id. 360 (1885); Skelton v. Pendleton, 18 Conn. ♦423 (1847), cases; Harris v. Dale, 6 Bush, 63 (1868). ^ Munson v. Washband, 31 Conn. 306-8 (1863),.cases, Hinman, O. J.; Breed 1;. Judd, 1 Gray, 458 (1854); Trainer V. Trumbull, 141 Mass. 630 (1886), cases: 25 Am. Law Reg. 69S-99 (1886), cases; Ayers v. Burns, 87Ind. 248 (1882), cases; 36 Alb. Law J. 283: 35 W. R. 806. See generally Ee Steele, 2 Flip. 328 (1879), cases. gation; that is, those things which directly aid in keeping her in motion for the purpose of receiving, carrying, and delivering cargoes, i This is the meaning in the twelfth Admiralty Rule, which provides that in suits by material-men for supplies, repairs, or other necessaries furnished to a foreign ship or a ship in a foreign port, the libelant may proceed against the ship and freight in rem, or against the master or owner in personam, and that in cases of domestic ships the proceeding shall be in personam only. Under the foregoing definition, a claim for storing sails would not be a subject of admiralty iurisdiction.i See Necessary; Provisions.