different between alimony vs estovers

English

Etymology

Known since 1655, from Latin alim?nia (“food, support, nourishment, sustenance”) (English aliment, as in alimentary), itself from alere (“to nourish”) + -m?nia (“action, state, condition”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ.l?.m?.ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ.l?.mo?.ni/

Noun

alimony (countable and uncountable, plural alimonies)

1. (law) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.

   Synonym: maintenance
2. The means to support life.

Derived terms

• alimonious
• palimony
• vaginamony

Related terms

• aliment
• alimentary

Translations

Further reading

• alimony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Molniya

English

Noun

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.
   • 1770, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

     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.

Synonyms

• bote

References

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

Anagrams

• oversets