Bensel v. Hall

Defendants appealed from an order vacating a levy made on. a judgment for alimony which plaintiff has against her divorced husband, C. D. Bensel. Plaintiff’s indebtedness to defendant Hall was incurred prior to the entry of the alimony judgment.

In our system of jurisprudence we view alimony from the standpoint of the civil law rather than from that of the ecclesiastical courts of England. Alimony, like alimentum of the civil law from which the word may have come, relates to a provision for food, clothing, shelter and the necessities of life. It rests on marital duty to provide sustenance. The…