Alimony vs Estovers - What's the difference?
alimony | estovers |
(legal) A court-enforced allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.
The means to support life.
(legal, history) An estover, an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.
(legal, history) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
(legal, history) An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
(legal, history) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.
As nouns the difference between alimony and estovers
is that alimony is a court-enforced allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person while estovers is plural of lang=en.alimony
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(wikipedia alimony)Noun
(alimonies)Derived terms
* palimony * alimoniousestovers
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*A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal Terms of the Common and Civil Law, page 565