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A support having handles and with or without a wheel on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by

spousal support or maintenance

Financial payments made to help support a spouse or former spouse during separation or following divorce. Also called alimony.

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: overall total exclusive of deductions in gross 1 : as a lump sum see also lump sum alimony at alimony 2 : independently existing, belonging to a person, and not attached to land see also easement

palimony

a form of alimony paid to a former partner in a romantic relationship after a period of living together even though the

maintenance

the state of having such support 2 : a financial means of providing necessary assistance: as a : alimony b : support 3 : the necessities of life provided for by payment of maintenance 4 : the

Adultery

committed adultery and was the first offender, but now see the very full powers of granting maintenance and alimony which the Court has by virtue of the (English) Judicature Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c.

Estovers, or estouviers

i.e., fovere, Lat., to keep warm, cherish, sustain, or defend]. Bote, any kind of sustenance; also a wife's alimony. Estoveria sunt ardendi, arandi, construendi et claudendi. 13 Rep. 68.--(Estovers are of firebote, ploughbote, housebote, and hedgebote.) Wood

Husband and wife

of conjugal rights, Queen v. Jackson, (1891) 1 QB 671. Consult Lush on Husband and Wife; and see ALIMONY; MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY; JUDICIAL SEPARATION; MATRIMONIAL CAUSES; WITNESS; DIVORCE

Estovers

a tenant for life etc of sustenance to a man confined for felony out of his estate or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husbands estate

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