Possible Definitions:
1. Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
2. Maintenance (n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
3. 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.
