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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....
Carte-bote
Carte-bote. See BOTE....
Dolg-bote
Dolg-bote [fr. dolg, Sax., wound, and bote, recompense], a recompense for a scar or wound, Cowel....
Hay-bote
Hay-bote, a liberty to take thorns and other wood to make and repair hedges, gates, fences, etc., either by tenant for life or years; also wood for making of rakes and forks. See BOTE....
Hedge-bote
Hedge-bote, materials to make hedges, which a lessee for years, etc., may of common right take from the land leased.-see BOTE....
Bote
Compensation amends satisfaction expiation as man bote a compensation or a man slain...
Booting, or Boting corn
Booting, or Boting corn [fr. boteor boot, Sax., compensation], rent corn, anciently so called....
Feud-bote
Feud-bote, a recompense for engaging in a feud or quarrel, Cowel's Law Dict....
God-bote
God-bote, an ecclesiastical or church fine paid for crimes and offences committed against God...
Kin-bote
Kin-bote, compensation for the murder of a kins-man, Old Saxon Law....
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