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Definition of Alimenting
1. aliment [v] - See also: aliment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alimenting
Literary usage of Alimenting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1885)
"... as it was not averred that the inspector of the alimenting parish had any
knowledge of the funds which it was alleged that the lunatic possessed. ..."
2. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"Answered for the pursuers : That the law of nature dictated, that children, whose
tender age rendered them incapable of alimenting themselves, ..."
3. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... and 3d, the surplus of the rents is to be applied in clothing and alimenting
four boys to be educated at said school ; providing always that the parents ..."
4. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by Scotland Court of Session, F. Somerville, J. Tawse, John Craigie, George Robinson, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1832)
"It was farther argued on the part of the collector, that the burden of alimenting
revenue prisoners fell upon the burgh, and not upon the Crown ; but upon ..."
5. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1836)
"765, a claim for alimenting seems to have been held as falling under the statute;
while in another, February, 1687, it wad found, ..."
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