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Definition :

Bote [fr. bot, A.S.; beton, to repair, synonymous with estovers, Fr.; esroffer, to furnish], necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. The owner of an estate for life or for years is entitled, even if he is impeachable for waste and unless expressly restrained by the terms of the conveyance, settlement, or devise, to reasonable estovers or botes, i.e., necessary wood, such as house-bote, plough-bote, cart-bote, and hay-bote or hedge-bote. House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or burn in the house, and sometimes termed fire-bote; plough-bote and cart-bote are wood to be employed in making and repairing all instruments of husbandry; and hay-bote or hedge-bote is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences. The word also signifies reparation for any damage or injury done, as man-bote, which was a compensation or amends for a man slain, etc., 2 Bl. Com. 35; Jac. Law Dict.

A compensation or profit; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.