estovers
noun1
Law Historical An estover; an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.
2
Law Historical An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
3
Law Historical An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
4
Law Historical The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.
- It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common.1770, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
- Synonyms
- bote