family expenses

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
FAMILY EXPENSES. The sum which it costs a man to maintain a family. 
     2. Merchants and traders who desire to exhibit the true state of their 
affairs in their books, keep an exact account of family expenses, which, in 
case of failure, is very important, and at all times proper. 
    

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