Sustenance; support; assistance. The furnishing by one person to. Another, for his support, of the means of living, or food, clothing, shelter, etc., particularly where the legal relation of the par-ties is such that one is bound to support the other, as between father’ and child, or hnsband and wife, wall v. williams, 93 N. C. 330, 53 Am. Rep. 458; winthrop Co. v. Clin-ton, 196 Pa. 472, 46 AU. 435, 79 Am. St Rep. 729; Regina v. Gravesend, 6 El. A Bl. 466; State v. Beatty, 61 Iowa, 307. 16 N. W. 149; In re warren Insane Hospital, 3 Pa. Dist R. 223
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
