|
|
Definition of Estovers
1. n. pl. Necessaries or supplies; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony out of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate.
Definition of Estovers
1. Noun. (plural of estover) ¹
2. Noun. (legal history) An estover, an allowance made from an estate for a person's support. ¹
3. Noun. (legal history) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support. ¹
4. Noun. (legal history) An allowance of wood made to a tenant. ¹
5. Noun. (legal history) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Estovers
1. necessities allowed by law [n]
Medical Definition of Estovers
1. Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc, of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Common of estovers. See Common. Origin: OF. Estoveir, estovoir, necessary, necessity, need, prop. An infin. Meaning to suit, be fit, be necessary. See Stover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estovers
Literary usage of Estovers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of American Law by John Bouvier (1854)
"Of the different kinds of estovers. 1657. When considered as to the use to which
they are ... The word bote is used synonymously with the word estovers. ..."
2. The Law of Landlord and Tenant: To which is Added an Appendix of Precedents by William Woodfall, John Tidd Pratt (1829)
"estovers are three kinds in law, and are incident to the estate of every tenant,
... These botes or estovers must be reasonable ones; and such any tenant or ..."
3. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1830)
"... or by grant, tobe exercised in tale of ano lands not occupied bv the tenant
of the house; as if a man grants estovers to ther. ..."
4. A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands: With Special Reference to the Law of by Charles Isaac Elton (1868)
"COMMON of estovers is the right of taking from the woods or waste lands of ...
The word estovers, signifying necessary supplies, was at one time used in a ..."
5. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"Since estovers cannot be apportioned, neither of the tenants, in case of the
division of a farm among themselves, can have them. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The Saxon word, bote, is used by us as synonymous to the French estovers: and
therefore house- bote is a sufficient allowance of wood, to repair, ..."
7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"The policy of the old law in favour of common of pasture, and of estovers, as
heing conducive to improvement in agriculture, has entirely changed, ..."
Other Resources:
