estovers

estovers

1. plural of estover
2. (law, historical) An estover, an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.
3. (law, historical) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
4. (law, historical) An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
5. (law, historical) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.
   • Blackstone

     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.

• bote

• A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal Terms of the Common and Civil Law, page 565

• oversets