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Testate :: Testate (n.) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person.

Demise :: Demise (v. t.) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease..

Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities..

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

Moiety :: Moiety (a.) One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation..

Vest :: Vest (v. i.) To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law..

Tenancy :: Tenancy (n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another..

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

Inventory :: Inventory (n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business..

Lodge :: Lodge (n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..

Farm :: Farm (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes..

Usufruct :: Usufruct (n.) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance..

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..

Restate :: Restate (v. t.) To state anew.

Wealth :: Wealth (n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches..

Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..

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..

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

Alimony :: Alimony (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same..

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