Definition of Real estate

1. Noun. Property consisting of houses and land.

Exact synonyms: Immovable, Real Property, Realty
Generic synonyms: Belongings, Holding, Property
Specialized synonyms: Acres, Demesne, Estate, Land, Landed Estate, Land, Dead Hand, Mortmain

Definition of Real estate

1. Noun. Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on. ¹

2. Noun. (informal loosely) Available space. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Real estate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Under Joseph Thaw's will, during the life of Mrs. Thaw, his widow, she held the legal title to the real estate devised thereby for her life, ..."

2. 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)
"After the payment of his debts he had given'the real estate to his wife for life, and after her death to his heirs by her. His own children, therefore, ..."

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)
"CONVERSION directed by Will of real estate into personal, not to all intents, but for the purpose only of answering legacies and annuities : subject to that ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"And so in every case, whether the real estate is charged with the payment of the legacies Is a question of intention. The intention to charge must be either ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"The following real estate shall be to til Judgments and attachments, ... The estate or interest of the judgment debtor in any real estate shall not be sold ..."

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