Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Writ for having estovers. A writ which lay for a wife divorced a mensa et thoro, to recover her alimony or estovers. 1 Bl. Comin. 441; 1 Lev. 6.