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MAINTENANCE,

Legal Term: MAINTENANCE,
Definition: quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find maintenance for his children; and a child is required by law to main-tain his father or mother when they cannot support themselves, and he has ability to maintain them. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 284-6.





***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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