legal dependent

legal dependent
A person whom one is legally bound to support. Caldwell v Little, 158 NC 351, 74 SE 10. One who has the right to invoke the aid of the law to require another to support him. National Council J. O. U. A. M. v Tate, 212 NC 305, 193 SE 397, 113 ALR 1514.

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