ESTOVERS, a term in common law for the wood which a tenant for life or years may take from the land he holds for re pair of his house, the implements of husbandry, and the hedges and fences, and for firewood. The O.E. word for estover was bote or boot (q.v.). These rights may of course be restricted by ex press covenants. Copyholders had similar rights over the land they occupied and over the waste of the manor, in which case they were known as "Commons of estovers." (See COMMONS.)