estovers
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
estovers
Noun[edit]
estovers pl (plural only)
- (law, history) An estover, an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.
- (law, history) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
- (law, history) An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
- (law, history) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.
- 1770, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
- 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.