Estover
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Estover is a noun meaning (law, history) Estovers.
Meaning
(law, history) Estovers.
More Meanings
- (archaic, law, history) An allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing.
Example Sentences
Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason of your third part could in that wood take house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would be taken house-bote and hay-bote and fuel for two hearths, whereas they were previously appendant to only one hearth: wherefore, estovers for house-bote &c. you can not have; and we paray judgment.
Word Forms
- estovers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include avowance, avenage, verd, alimony, stipend, ovest.
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