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Champerty :: Champerty (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance..

Benefice :: Benefice (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson..

Sustaltic :: Sustainment (n.) The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.

Independence :: Independence (n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference..

Supporter :: Supportation (n.) Maintenance; support.

Policed :: Policed (a.) Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration..

Sustenance :: Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life..

Scholarship :: Scholarship (n.) Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.

Assertion :: Assertion (n.) Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives..

Aliment :: Aliment (n.) An allowance for maintenance.

Livelihood :: Livelihood (n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance..

Pensionary :: Pensionary (a.) Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance..

Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

Jaghir :: "Jaghir (n.) A village or district the government and revenues of which are assigned to some person, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops..

Sustentation :: Sustentation (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance..

Keep :: Keep (n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse..

Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty..

Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..

Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support..

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