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Definition of estate

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Estate (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons..

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Tail :: Tail (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail..

Administration :: Administration (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use..

Testament :: Testament (n.) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death..

Use :: Use (v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.

Intestate :: Intestate (a.) Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate..

Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices..

House :: House (n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament..

Devisee :: Devisee (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will..

Paterfamilias :: Paterfamilias (n.) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master..

Seizin :: Seizin (n.) Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership..

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title..

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent..

Purchaser :: Purchaser (n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance..

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Unity :: Unity (n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession..

Resident :: Resident (a.) Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country..

Allodium :: Allodium (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud..

Institute :: Institute (n.) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

Revertible :: Revertible (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate..