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Definition of Necessaries
1. necessary [n] - See also: necessary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necessaries
Literary usage of Necessaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"Necessaries — what are they? It has always been held that an infant may render
himself liable for the supply to him not merely of the necessaries of life, ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"It is essential to recovery that necessaries shall have been furnished on the
... What are necessaries. It depends upon the facts in each case whether goods ..."
3. Principles of the Law of Contract: With a Chapter on the Law of Agency by William Reynell Anson, Arthur Linton Corbin (1919)
"160, Contracts for necessaries. An infant can bind himself by contract for
necessaries whether these take the form of a supply of goods or a loan of money; ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1890)
"Necessaries are those things which are necessary BOOK n. for some purpose or ...
The older use of the term "necessaries" was limited to those Neces- things ..."
5. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Frederick Pollock (1885)
"Contracts for necessaries. Liability The leading authority on this subject is
now the ... This exception is that ho may make a contract for necessaries, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"cation of the contract, by a new promise after he came of age.2 Upon the issue
of necessaries or not, when specially pleaded, no evidence of minority is ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"The court holds that the words "to make any unjust or unreasonable rate or charge
In handling or dealing In or with any necessaries" ..."