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*

Eat cattle are provisions, or munitions of war, within the true intent and meaning of the act of congress of July 6, 1812, prohibiting trade with the enemies of the United States. United States v. Barber, 9 Cranch, 243; United States v. Sheldon, 2 Wlwat. 119. Corn may be deemed embraced by a statute exempting " provisions on hand for family use " from execution. Atkinson a. Gatcher, 2^ Ark. 101. The provisions furnished a ship, strictly considered, are confined to such articles as enter into the food or subsistence for hands and passengers; while stores is a more general term, and may embrace wood and coaL Crooke v. Slack, 20 Wend. 177. A bequest of "corn, fodder, meat, and other provisions on hand," includes wine and brandy which the testator had laid in and provided for his own use. Mooney v. Evans, 6 Ired. Eg. 363. The nominations to benefices by the pope were called provisions, and those who were so nominated were termed provisors. Various statutes were passed in the reign of Edward III., forbidding all ecclesiastical persons from purchasing these provisions: see, in particular, the Stats. 25 Edw. IH. st. 6, and 27 Edw. III. st. 1, which are preeminently called the statutes of provisors. Brown.