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estovers, n. pl. Law.|ɪˈstəʊvəz|
[a. OF. estover, estovoir, subst. use of estovoir to be necessary. Cf. stover.]
‘Necessaries allowed by law’ (J.). In various specific applications: esp. Wood which a tenant is privileged to take from his landlord's estate so far as it is necessary for repairing his house, hedges, implements, etc.; alimony for a widow or for a wife separated from her husband; maintenance for an imprisoned felon. (See quots. Cf. boot n.1 5 b.)
[1292Britton iii. vii. §5 La value de renables estovers en autri soil.] 1594West Symbol. ii. §55 Housebote, haibote, and plowbote may be demanded by the name of estovers. 1641Termes de la Ley 147 Estovers..Bracton used it for such sustenance as a man taken for Felony is to have forth of his lands or goods for himselfe and his family during his imprisonment. And the Statute of 6 Ed. 1 cap. 3. useth this for allowance in meate or cloth. 1642Perkins Prof. Bk. i. §104. 46 Estouers granted to be burnt in a house certaine. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind ii. vi. 243 Estovers in meat or clothes. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 441 Alimony to the [divorced] wife..is sometimes called her estovers. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 89 Estovers for the building of new houses. 1876Digby Real Prop. iii. 116 She [a widow] shall have in the meantime her reasonable estovers of the common.
b. common of estovers: a liberty of taking necessary wood, for the use or furniture of a house, or farm, from off another's estate. (Wharton.)
1523Fitzherb. Surv. 7 The Lord may gyue or selle the resydewe of the sayde woodes or wastes, Excepte that a manne haue commen of Estouers. 1594West Symbol. ii. Chancerie §141 All..common, aswell of estovers and pastures, as all other commons. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ii. iii. 27 Common of estovers..is a liberty of taking necessary wood. 1879M. E. Braddon Vixen xxviii, The piled-up logs testified to the Tempest common of estovers. |