See Also: BOTE(law)
bote(medicine)
CART BOTE(law)
THEFT-BOTE(law)
GOD BOTE, eccl(law)
HAD BOTE, Engl(law)
HEDGE-BOTE(law)
HOUSE-BOTE(law)
PLOUGH-BOTE(law)
Tight money or dear money(finance)

Third Party (money) and bote (medicine)


Third Party (money)


Definition: Person Other than the principals directly involved in a transaction.







bote (medicine)


bote
Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

Payment of any kind.

A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as, housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote, cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.

Origin: Old form of boot; used in composition. See 1st Boot.

Source: Websters Dictionary