The offense of wlth-holdlng or withdrawing from another man what by law he is entitled to. There are various descriptions of this offense, of which the principal are as follows: (1) Subtraction of suit and services, which is a species of in-jury affecting a man's real property, and con-sists of a withdrawal of (or a neglect to per-form or pay) the fealty, suit of court, rent, or services reserved by the lessor of the land. (2) Subtraction of tithes is the withholding from the parson or vicar the tithes to which he is entitled, and this is cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts. (3) Subtraction of con-jugal rights is the withdrawing or wlthhold-ing by a husband or wife of those rights and privileges which the law allows to either party. (4) Subtraction of legacies is the withholding or detaining of legacies by an executor. (5) Subtraction of church rates, in Euglish law, consists in the refusal to pay tbe amount of rate at which any individual parishioner has been assessed for the necessary repairs of the parish church. Brown
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
