Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Necessaries
1. Things that are indispensable to living <an infant's necessaries include food, shelter, and clothing>. - Also termed necessities of life. 2. Things that are essential to maintaining the lifestyle to which one is accustomed <a multimillionaire's necessaries may include a chauffeured limousine and a private chef>. ( The term includes whatever is reasonably needed for subsistence, health, comfort, and education, considering the person's age, station in life, and medical condition, but it excludes' (1) anything purely ornamental, (2) anything solely for pleasure, (3) what the person is already supplied with, (4) anything that concerns someone's estate or business as opposed to personal needs, and (5) borrowed money.
doctrine of necessaries
Archaic. The common-law rule holding a husband or father liable to one who sells goods to his wife or child if the goods are required for sustenance or support. See NECESSARIES.