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Definition of Estates
1. estate [v] - See also: estate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estates
Literary usage of Estates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"estates in respect to the time of enjoyment.—Hitherto we have considered estates
solely with regard to their duration, or the quantity of interest which the ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Of thirty-nine Scottish estates vested in them they had sold thirty-four, ...
Id. due to creditors of the estates, and leaving a meagre balance of £61409. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"JOHN SHELLEY by his Will, dated the 5th of April, 1728, devised estates in the
county of Sussex to trustees, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"The will therefore created a life estate in the widow in the entire estate, and
at her death life estates of two thirds and one third of the property ..."
5. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Additional measures urged for securing escheated estates for educational purposes.
... Legislation needed to secure state's interest in escheated estates. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"estates in respect to the time of enjoyment.—Hitherto we have considered estates
solely with regard to their duration, or the quantity of interest which the ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Of thirty-nine Scottish estates vested in them they had sold thirty-four, ...
Id. due to creditors of the estates, and leaving a meagre balance of £61409. ..."
8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"JOHN SHELLEY by his Will, dated the 5th of April, 1728, devised estates in the
county of Sussex to trustees, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns, ..."
9. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"The will therefore created a life estate in the widow in the entire estate, and
at her death life estates of two thirds and one third of the property ..."
10. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Additional measures urged for securing escheated estates for educational purposes.
... Legislation needed to secure state's interest in escheated estates. ..."
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