in Law, is used, by Bracton, for that suiftenance which a man, committed for felony, is to have out of his lands or goods for himself and his family during imprisonment. In Stat. 6 Edw. I., it is used for an allowance in meat or clothes. In some manors, the tenants have common of eflovers; that is, necessary botes or allowances out of the lord's wood: in which laft fene, eflovers comprehends houfe-bote, hay-bote, and plow-bote; fo that if a man have in his grant thefe general words, de rationabili efloverio in bofcis, &c. he may thereby claim all three.

Eflovers is alfo used for alimony, which, if the husband refuses to pay, there is, besides the ordinary process of excommunication, a writ at common law, de efloveris habendi, in order to recover it.