In legal history, a bote, also spelled bot or bót, was a compensation, recompense, or amends. In Law, damages refers to the money paid or awarded to a Claimant (England Pursuer (Scotland or Plaintiff (US following a successful It is the source of a variety of other terms, including the following: manbote, which is amends paid to a lord for a servant who was killed; boteless, where no judgment or favor will acquit someone, as would be the case for sacrilege; fire-bote, house-bote, hedge-bote, plow-bote, etc. It is also the source of the common phrase to boot.
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This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. In former 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 Cyclopaedia or A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ( folio, 2 vols The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
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