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Home Dictionary Name: alimony trust Page: 3Estovers, or estouviers
Estovers, or estouviers [fr. estoffer, Fr., to furnish, or festover, Fr., i.e., fovere, Lat., to keep warm, cherish, sustain, or defend]. Bote, any kind of sustenance; also a wife's alimony.Estoveria sunt ardendi, arandi, construendi et claudendi. 13 Rep. 68.--(Estovers are of firebote, ploughbote, housebote, and hedgebote.)Wood that a tenant is allowed to take for fuel, the manufacture or repair of agricultural instruments, and erection and maintenance of fences and lodges, Black's Law Dictionary....
Estovers
Necessaries or supplies an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support as of wood to a tenant for life etc of sustenance to a man confined for felony out of his estate or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husbands estate...
Aliment
Aliment [fr. alimentum, Lat.], a fund for maintenance-alimony, Scots Law....
order
order 1 : a state of peace, freedom from unruly behavior, and respect for law and proper authority [maintain law and ] 2 : an established mode or state of procedure [a call to ] 3 a : a mandate from a superior authority see also executive order b : a ruling or command made by a competent administrative authority ;specif : one resulting from administrative adjudication and subject to judicial review and enforcement [an administrative may not be inconsistent with the Constitution "Wells v. State, 654 So. 2d 145 (1995)"] c : an authoritative command issued by the court [violated a court and was jailed for contempt] cease-and-de·sist order [sēs-ənd-di-zist-, -sist-] : an order from a court or quasi-judicial tribunal to stop engaging in a particular activity or practice (as an unfair labor practice) compare injunction, mandamus, stay consent order : an agreement of litigating parties that by consent takes the form of a court order final order : an order of a court...
prefer
prefer pre·ferred pre·fer·ring 1 : to give (a creditor or debt) priority or preference [any preferred charges such as child support or alimony "In re Smiley, 427 P.2d 179 (1967)"] 2 : to bring forward for determination ;esp : to bring (a charge) against someone [the various means by which a grand jury might charges "State v. Byrd, 399 S.E.2d 267 (1990)"] ...
nondischargeable debt
nondischargeable debt A debt that cannot be eliminated in bankruptcy. Examples include a home mortgage, debts for alimony or child support, certain taxes, debts for most government funded or guaranteed educational loans or benefit overpayments, debts arising from death or personal injury caused by driving while intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, and debts for restitution or a criminal fine included in a sentence on the debtor's conviction of a crime. Some debts, such as debts for money or property obtained by false pretenses and debts for fraud or defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity may be declared nondischargeable only if a creditor timely files and prevails in a nondischargeability action. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Allegation of faculties
Allegation of faculties, the statement of a person's means. A term formerly used in the Ecclesiastical Courts in proceedings for alimony....
Estoverlis habendis
Estoverlis habendis, a writ for a wife judicially separated to recover her alimony or estovers. Obsolete....
Rationabile estoverium
Rationabile estoverium, alimony....
palimony
palimony [blend of pal and alimony] : a court-ordered allowance paid by one member of a couple formerly living together out of wedlock to the other not used technically ...
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