Bote

A recompense or compensation. The common word "boot" comes from this word. Cowell. The term is applied as well to making repairs in houses, bridges, etc., as to making a recompense for slaying a man or stealing property. House bote, materials which may be taken to repair a house; hedge bote, to repair hedges; brig bote, to repair bridges; man bote, compensation to be paid by a murderer. Bote is known to the English law also under the name of "estover." 1 Washb. Real Prop. 99; 2 Bl. Comm. 35.

BOT. A recompense or compensation. The common word to boot comes from this word. Cowell. The term is applied as well to making repairs in houses, bridges, etc., as to making a recompense for slaying a man or stealing property. House bote, materials which may be taken to repair a house; hedge bote, to repair hedges; brig bote, to repair bridges; man bote, compensation to be paid by a murderer. It was this system of bot and wer, resting upon blood-feud and upon outlawry, which was the ground work of the Anglo-Saxon criminal law; 2 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 36. Bote is known to the English law also under the name of Estover; 1 Washb. R. P. *99; 2 Bla. Com. 35. The tenant for life was entitled to take reasonable "botes" and "estovers," without committing waste. 3 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 105.

Sax.

In old English law. An allowance; an estover or estovers. v. Estover. The word is still retained as a part of the compounds, housebote, ploughbote, firebote, etc., partly in the old Saxon sense of reparation and partly in the more general sense of an allowance. v. Cartbote; Firebote; Haybote; Housebote; Ploughbote.

In Saxon law. A reparation, or making good of any damage done; the reparation of a church, town or bridge; a compensation, amends or recompense; a satisfaction or composition paid in expiation of an offense, as for the death of a vassal or kinsman, or for breach of the peace.

In old English law. A recompense or compensation, or profit or advantage. Also reparation or amends for any damage done. Necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. An allowance; the ancient name for estovers. House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or burn in the house, and sometimes termed "fire-bote;" plow-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 manbote, which was a compensation or amends for a man slain, etc.

8 Compensation, recompense; satisfaction, amends. Synonymous with French estovers, q. v. Housebote: sufficient wood from another's land to repair, or to be burnt in, one's house; whence ^re-ftoie. Ploughbote, cart-bote: wood for making and repairing instruments of husbandry. Hay-bote,, hedge-bote: wood for repairing hay, hedges, or fences." 1 Brown v. State, 18 Ohio St. 507 (1869). 2 1 Bl. Com. 75; 2 id. 83. 'Wharton's Law Diet.; 1 Bl. Com. 174. * Appeal of Phila. & Reading E. Co.,.39 Leg. Int. 98 (Fa., 1882); State v. School District, 13 Neb. 88(1882).. *Kent V. Quicksilver Mining Co., 78 N. Y. 177 (1879), Folger, J. • National Bank v. Lewis, 75 N. Y. 523 (1878), cases. ' Levris V. Sherman County, 1 Mc Craiy, 377 (1881). Theft-bote. Where a person who has been robbed takes his goods, back, or receives other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute the felon.' Bote is supposed to be preserved in the expressions " What boots it," and "to boot."

boot, sax. Compensation; estover. Housebote: an repairing the house; haybote ploughbote or cartbote, firebote, for fuel.

Bota, Bot, Boot, Sax.

In Saxon law. A reparation, or making good 'of any damage done; (Lat. emendatio, refec Ho, restauratio.) Spelman. Circ bota, burg bota, brug bota, (qq. v.); the reparation of a church, town, or bridge. Ibid, A compensation, amends, or recompense. Larnb, Explic. cited in Cowell, A satisfaction or composition paid under the Saxon laws, in expiation of an offence. Spelman, Cowell. Co, Litt, 127 a. Man bote,m<i Rgbot, kins bot, frithes bot, (qq. v.); satisfaction for the death of a vassal or kinsman, or for breach of the peace. Spelman.

In English law. An allowance; otherwise called estover or estovers, (qq. v.) The word bote (sometimes written boot,) is of frequent occurrence in ancient English law, but usually in combination with other words, as above. It is still retained in English and American jurisprudence, as a component of the words housebote, ploughbote, cartbote, hedgebote and firebote, partly in its ancient sense of reparation or replenishment, and partly in the secondary or general sense of a sufficient allowance; bemg synonymous with the word estovers.* Co. Idtt. 41 b. Thus, h<nuiebote signifies an allowance of wood to a tenant for the purpose of repairing his house, {in odium refectionem;) plougkhote and carthote, for making and repairing his instruments of husbandry; Jiayhote or hedgehote for repairing his hedges; and firebote, for maintaining or replenishing his fire. Spelman, 2 Bl Com. 35. 1 StepL Com. 241. See Carthote, Firebote, Hayhote, Housebote, Ploughbote,

contracts, a recompense, satisfaction, amends, profit or advantage: hence came the word manbote, denoting a compensation for a man slain; lhouse-bote, cart-bote, plough-bote, signify that the tenant is privileged to cut wood for these uses. 2 Bl]. Com. 35; Woodf. L. & T. 232.