HOUSE-BOTE

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Housebote \House"bote`\, n. [House + bote.] (Law)
     Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for
     fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See {Bote}.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  HOUSE-BOTE. An allowance of necessary timber out of the landlord's woods, 
  for the repairing and support of a house or tenement. This belongs of 
  common-right to any lessee for years or for life. House-bote is said to be 
  of two kinds, estoveriam aedificandi et ardendi. Co. Litt. 41.