单词 | estovers |
释义 | estoversn. Law. a. ‘Necessaries allowed by law’ (Johnson). 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 5b.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal possession > [noun] > necessaries allowed by law estovers1594 the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [noun] > that which is necessary > necessaries > allowed by law estovers1594 1292 Britton iii. vii. §5 La value de renables estovers en autri soil.] 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. §55 Housebote, haibote, and plowbote may be demanded by the name of estovers. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 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. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §104. 46 Estouers granted to be burnt in a house. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. vi. 243 Estovers in meat or clothes. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 441 Alimony to the [divorced] wife..is sometimes called her estovers. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 100 Estovers for repairing houses, or for building new houses. 1876 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. (ed. 2) iii. 116 She [sc. a widow] shall have in the meantime her reasonable estovers of the common. b. common of estovers n. a liberty of taking necessary wood, for the use or furniture of a house, or farm, from off another's estate. (Wharton.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right to take or carry wood housebotelOE haybote?1170 wainbotec1250 wood-lode1263 ploughbote1398 common of estovers1523 boot1553 hedgebote1565 wood-hag1569 cart-bote1594 affuage1753 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng vii. f. 7 The Lorde may gyue or selle the resydewe of the sayde woodes or wastes, Excepte that a manne haue commen of Estouers. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §141 All..common, aswell of estovers and pastures, as all other commons. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ii. iii. 27 Common of estovers..is a liberty of taking necessary wood. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen xxviii The piled-up logs testified to the Tempest common of estovers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1523 |
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