Legal Definition and Related Resources of Necessaries

The term as generally understood applies to purchases made by minors and married women whereby the estate of the minor , his parent or the husband is bound to pay for them. The term includes services, food, clothing and household supplies. In matrimonial law, a relative term and does not merely include the bare necessities of life. It may include those articles which are suitable to the rank, position, fortune, earning capacity and mode of living. See Trask v Davis, (Mo. App.) 297 S. W.2d 792. In maritime law , the term denotes items reasonably required for the service on which the ship is engaged, such as a prudent owner would have ordered if present at the time. The authority of the master of the vessel arises out of necessity. See The Julia Blake (Bank of St. Thomas v The Julia Blake), 107 U.S. 418, 2 S. Ct. 692, 27 L.Ed. 595.

Such things are as proper and necessary for the sustenance of man. As used to describe those things for which an infant may lawfully contract, necessaries are such articles, suitable to the infant’s station in life, as are needful to supply the personal requirements of the infant, whether of body or mind. li Mete. (Mass.) 561. It includes board and lodging (23 Vt. 378), medical attendance (42 Conn. 203), or education suitable to the infant’s station in life (16 Vt. 683). It does not include services essential to the improvement or protection of his property rights (12 Mete. [Mass.] 559; 32 N. H. 345), but does include services essential to secure or protect his personal rights (68 Hun [N. Y.] 589; 12 Kan. 463). As used to describe those things for which a wife may pledge her husband’s credit, it has a slightly narrower significance, excluding instruction (40 Conn. 75), and including only those things which are presently needful for the present support of the wife (68 Mo. App. 191), or to maintain her personal rights (50 III. App. 27) ; but the nature of the support for which she is entitled to contract depends on the husband’s means and station in life(114 Mass. 429). As used to describe those things for which a master may hypothecate the ship, it includes such articles fit and proper for the ship as the owner would, in the exercise of reasonable prudence, have ordered, if present. Maude & P. Shipp, 71.

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Necessaries in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of necessaries.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• necessaries in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• necessaries in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis