English Dictionary

estovers

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ

(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.

日本語の意味

遺産から、個人が生活費や扶養のために支給される手当。 / 離婚した女性に対し、夫の遺産から支給される生活支援金または扶養手当。

Under the will, the widow was entitled to estovers to cover fuel and food for herself and the children.

遺言によれば、未亡人は自分と子どもたちの燃料や食料を賄うために遺産からの扶養手当を受ける権利があった。

意味（1）

(law, history) An estover, an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.

意味（2）

(law, history) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.

意味（3）

(law, history) An allowance of wood made to a tenant.

意味（4）

(law, history) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.

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.