Separate Maintenance
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Separate Maintenance
Money paid by one married person to the other for support if they are no longer living as Husband and Wife. Commonly it is referred to as separate support and follows from a court order.
See Alimony.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
SEPARATE MAINTENANCE, contracts. An allowance made by a husband to his wife
for her separate support and maintenance.
2. When this allowance is regularly paid, and notice of it has been
given, no person who has received such notice will be entitled to recover
against the husband for necessaries furnished to the wife, because the
liability of the husband, depends on a presumption of authority delegated by
him to the wife, which is negatived by the facts of the case. 2 Stark. Ev.
699.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.