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Astate :: Astate (n.) Estate; state.

Administer :: Administer (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B..

Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate..

Discontinuor :: Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2..

Fiar :: Fiar (n.) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.

Insolvency :: Insolvency (n.) Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate..

Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend..

Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred..

Trust :: Trust (n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust..

Demisable :: Demisable (a.) Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate..

Quarrel :: Quarrel (v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights..

Plant :: Plant (n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad..

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..

Intestate :: Intestate (a.) Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate..

Executory :: Executory (a.) Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract..

Fortune :: Fortune (n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune..

Obrok :: Obrok (n.) A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.

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