estover

English

Noun

estover (usually uncountable, plural estovers)

1. (archaic, law, history) An allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing.
   • 1873, Alfred John Horwood, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First: XXI-XXII:

     Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason of your third part could in that wood take house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would be taken house-bote and hay-bote and fuel for two hearths, whereas they were previously appendant to only one hearth: wherefore, estovers for house-bote &c. you can not have; and we paray judgment.

2. (law, history) Estovers.

Usage notes

Now only used in the plural.

Related terms

• estoverium

References

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

Anagrams

• e-voters, overset, revotes, vetoers

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Old French

Verb

estover

1. (impersonal) Alternative form of estovoir

Noun

estover oblique singular, m (oblique plural estovers, nominative singular estovers, nominative plural estover)

1. Alternative form of estovoir