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Answer for the clue "Legal necessaries ", 8 letters:
estovers

Word definitions for estovers in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of estover English) 2 (context legal history English) An estover, an allowance made from an estate for a person's support. 3 (context legal history English) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Estovers \Es*to"vers\ ([e^]s*t[=o]"v[~e]rz), n. pl. [OF. estoveir, estovoir, necessary, necessity, need, prop. an infin. meaning to suit, be fit, be necessary. See Stover .] (Law) Necessaries or supplies; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In English law , estovers is wood that a tenant is allowed to take, for life or a period of years, from the land he holds for the repair of his house , the implements of husbandry , hedges and fences , and for firewood . The word derives from the French ...

Usage examples of estovers.

That any customary tenant of the said manor seized of any estate of inheritance, in any customary tenement within the said manor, may cut timber, or any other trees standing or growing in or upon his said customary tenement, for repairs of his ancient customary messuages, with their appurtenances, and for estovers and other necessary things to be used upon such his customary tenement, without the licence or assignment of the lord of the said manor, but not for building new messuages for habitation.

That no customary tenant of the said manor can cut, sell, or dispose of any trees growing upon his customary tenement, without the licence of the lord of the said manor, unless for repairs, estovers, and other necessary things to be used upon his customary tenement.

That any customary tenant of the said manor seized of any estate of inheritance, in any customary tenement within the said manor, may cut timber, or any other trees standing or growing in or upon his said customary tenement, for repairs of his ancient customary messuages, with their appurtenances, and for estovers and other necessary things to be used upon such his customary tenement, without the licence or assignment of the lord of the said manor, but not for building new messuages for habitation.

That no customary tenant of the said manor can cut, sell, or dispose of any trees growing upon his customary tenement, without the licence of the lord of the said manor, unless for repairs, estovers, and other necessary things to be used upon his customary tenement.

Even in Woolcombe Common and Simmon's Lea, which almost touch, the commons of piscary and of estovers are quite unlike, and here in Simmon's Lea there is no common of turbary at all.