0 the things that are needed, especially for a particular purpose:
In practice these ' necessaries ' often took the form of food and fuel, of mutton broth and sustaining porter or port.
The contract for £450 sterling to ' repair ' the king's chapel records that 'desks, stalls, lofts and other necessaries ' were to be inserted.
Firstly wives alleged that during cohabitation their husbands removed necessaries from them or refused to supply cash or credit to purchase them.
The common law had long prohibited price fixing and monopolization of commodities considered "necessaries of life" and ser vices affected with a public interest.
Instead, the common-law device of the law of agency provided her with the right to purchase necessaries in her husband's name, according to his rank and wealth.
We are pleading for these poor people, who cannot afford to purchase the necessaries of life because of the heavy burden of taxation.
The demand for luxuries would expand much more than for necessaries if to-morrow by a magic wand everybody's wages were doubled.
Maybe we shall have to forego a few necessaries and many luxuries produced by foreign countries.
