necessitous condition

necessitous condition
A condition of want of the necessaries of life. 27 Am J1st H & W § 436. Destitution. The condition of one without adequate, sufficient, or reasonable means of support. 23 Am J2d Desert §§ 13, 14. The condition of a child in need of the necessaries of life, which cover not only primitive physical needs, things absolutely indispensable to human existence and decency, but also those things which are in fact necessary to the particular person left without support; a condition of great need, extreme want, or poverty, or substantially the absence of means of securing the reasonable necessities of life, except through charity. 39 Am J1st P & C § 111. From the standpoint of a husband's liability for nonsupport, a relative term, the purpose of the statute under consideration and the conditions to which the husband and wife have been accustomed being determinative. 23 Am J2d Desert § 14.

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