Definition of estate

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Estate (n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death..

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Potestate :: Potestate (n.) A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Land :: Land (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract..
Hoarstone :: Hoarstone (n.) A stone designating the /ounds of an estate; a landmark.
Enjoyment :: Enjoyment (n.) The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate..
Aliene :: Aliene (v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate..
Demise :: Demise (n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter..
Reconvey :: Reconvey (v. t.) To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate..
Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner..
Admittance :: Admittance (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
States-general :: States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty..
Plantation :: Plantation (n.) The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation..
Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent..
Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates..
Deed :: Deed (v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son..
Leave :: Leave (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece..
Lessee :: Lessee (v. t.) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease..
Hacienda :: Hacienda (n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions..
Eject :: Eject (v. t.) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate..
Coestate :: Coestate (n.) Joint estate.
Restate :: Restate (v. t.) To state anew.
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