Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

MAINTENANCE, 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 maintain
his father or mother when they cannot support themselves, and he has ability to
maintain them....

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