Definition of Maintenances

1. maintenance [n] - See also: maintenance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maintenances

maintaineth
maintaining
maintainor
maintainors
maintains
maintenance
maintenance dose
maintenance drug therapy
maintenance man
maintenance medication
maintenance staff
maintenance therapy
maintenance treatment
maintenance window
maintenance windows
maintenances (current term)
maintenaunce
maintop
maintopmast
maintopmasts
maintops
mainyard
mainyards
maioid
maiolica
maiolicas
maior et sanior pars
mair
mairatour
maire

Literary usage of Maintenances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Robert Belt (1820)
"... with suitable allowances for maintenances till they should attain 21 years of age or be married : the condition of the bond was, therefore, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of ...by Great Britain Court of Chancery, William Peere Williams, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Samuel Compton Cox by Great Britain Court of Chancery, William Peere Williams, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Samuel Compton Cox (1787)
"... and for their maintenances, ioo/. per annum if. but one, 8o/. ... the portions and maintenances to be ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Legacies by Roper Stote Donnison Roper (1847)
"... with suitable allowances for maintenances till they should attain twenty- one, or be married; the condition of the bond was, therefore, that John should ..."

4. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"... without any deduction or abatement whatsoever, then and in every such case from time to time, such of the same respective annual maintenances or sums, ..."

5. Literae Cantuarienses: the letter books of the Monastery of Christ Church by Joseph Brigstocke Sheppard (1889)
"... or maintenances, to be received from the said Church, at the request of your said ... maintenances, by the said suppliants and their predecessors, ..."

6. A Treatise Upon the Law of Legacies by Roper Stote Donnison Roper (1804)
"... allowances for maintenances tilt they Jh^uid attain 21, or be married; ... upon their attaining 21 or days of marriage, with maintenances as therein ..."

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