The value of the estate depended on the labour available for its cultivation, and the cultivators were the unfree tenants.
The estate was regulated by a manor court, consisting of the lord of the manor or his representative, and the free tenants, and entrusted with wide quasi-domestic jurisdiction.
Raymond was proprietor of an estatenear St. Sauveur, the house of which was reported to be haunted, and Esther had dared Gray to spend a night there.
Among the provisions of the Rutgers will was one that bespoke the testator: Hannah, a superannuated negress, was to be supported by the estate for the rest of her life.
That saint on his death in Africa had left his estate in America to the Church of the Sea and Land and the American Seamen's Friend Society jointly.
Carteret's eldest son; but I doubt he hath yet no settled estate in land.
When Lateranus was put to death at the detection of the conspiracy, in the manner to be presently described, his estate was confiscated.
And that Martha chick--the real estate chick--she wants to look at my paintings.
He pushed along the road, whistling cheerily, whipping the road-side grass and weeds with his little ratan, and all the while approaching the foot of the hill up which the road wound through the estate of Pinewood.
The estate of Coubin, near Forres, is another melancholy instance.
Charles testified his gratitude by ennobling the family of Joan, giving it the name of du Lys, probably in allusion to the lilies of her banner, and assigning to her a suitable estate in land.
In his way thither, he stopt with him at his estate near Palteau.
When she died without leaving issue to him, being unwilling that his estate should go to the Bute family, he set out for England, to marry a young woman already pregnant, whom a friend had provided for him; but he died on his journey.
He was a native of Lincolnshire, and inherited a clear estate of more than 1000l.
An Estate in Possession of such a Successor to a good Man, is worse than laid waste; and the Family of which he is the Head, is in a more deplorable Condition than that of being extinct.
She has no Children to take care of, and leaves the Management of her Estate to my good Friend Sir ROGER.
He left the Estate with ten thousand Pounds Debt upon it, but however by all Hands I have been informed that he was every way the finest Gentleman in the World.
The greatest Part of Sir ROGER'S Estate is tenanted by Persons who have served himself or his Ancestors.
Jack had a goodEstate left him, which came to nothing; because he believed all who pretended to Demands upon it.
It will be Time enough to enjoy an Estate when it comes into our Hands; but if we anticipate our good Fortune, we shall lose the Pleasure of it when it arrives, and may possibly never possess what we have so foolishly counted upon.
Steele had from his first wife an estate in Barbadoes, which produced, after payment of the interest on its encumbrances, £670 a-year.
By these means he is generous, without impoverishing himself, and enjoys his Estateby making it the Property of others.
My baby cannot judge yet for himself, but I, his mother, can foresee that should it have been given him to survive to man's estate he would willingly sacrifice his life for the honour of his mother.
Investments and real estateincome also account for a sizable portion of revenue.
The majority of companies, banks, and real estate have been privatized, although the state still holds sizable stakes in a few large enterprises.
His estate of Maurilly he bestowed on the abbey of Fontenelle, or St. Vandrille, in Normandy.
He carried great treasures with him to mount Cassino, but left his estate to his son.
Arcadius, seeing his city in great confusion, left his estate and withdrew to a solitary place in the neighboring country, serving Jesus Christ in watching, prayer, and other exercises of a penitential life.
She managed the estate of her children with great prudence and frugality, knowing this to be part of her duty to God, but she was sensible that their spiritual instruction in virtue was of infinitely greater importance.
His father, whose name was Sergius, a worldly man, agreed to decide a dispute he had with a relation about an estate by a duel.
His wife was a lady of a consular family, whom he lost soon after their marriage, but he continued to enjoy a very great estate which he had inherited by her.
The remainder of the saint's estate having been confiscated in the persecution, he was advised to lay claim to it, as others had done, who thereby recovered what had been taken from them.
His father Claudius, being unjustly deprived of his house in Carthage, which was made over to the Arian priests, settled at an estate belonging to him at Telepte, the capital city of the province of Byzacena.
A certain rich nobleman gave his estate to the poor, and set his slaves at liberty; yet afterwards fell into pride, and many enormous crimes.
The rest of his estate he sold, and gave the price to the poor, except what he thought necessary for himself and his sister.
The saint having now obtained all he wished for in this world, made over his estate to his mother, to be discretionally disposed of by her in favor of his brother, as soon as he should be arrived at a proper age.
By the order of Valens, he was conducted into Lesser Armenia, where he made his own estate at Getasus, near Nicopolis, the place of his residence.
In the country--the provinces--they treat the representatives of the Fourth Estate as the squires a couple of generations back used to treat the parsons.
His response to the toast of the Fourth Estate was an apology for its behaviour to my father.
It was partly with her money that he purchased the estate of Mount Kennedy, and built on it one of the noblest mansions in Wicklow.
Master (Legh) everywhere restrains the heads, the brethren and sisters from going forth; and no women of what estate soever are allowed to visit religious men's houses and vice versa.
And also I'll give him for a bait the Jeffries estate I was hesitating about making a bid for.
Old man Jeffries has made two barrels of money in the last ten years in oil and he is going to build an estate up on the Hudson that will make the world gasp.
The garden did not resemble that at Don Calixto's house, for that one was of a frantic gaiety, and the one on Amparito's father's estate was very melancholy.
He had a magnificent estate called La Sauceda, and he wanted to be the Count de la Sauceda.
I thought that the management of the estate would keep me occupied.
All he knows about it is that there's a trust company downtown somewheres that handles the estate and wishes on him quarterly a lot more'n he knows how to spend.
This part of the boy's history is painfully vague and dim, and even after arriving at man's estate Mr. Lincoln was significantly reserved when reference was made to it.
After Abe had reached the estate of manhood, she was still in her 'teens.
When he arrived at man's estate these opportunities came as often as could be desired.
The farm on which he died was one his son purchased, providing a life estate therein for him and his wife.
To dream of giving jewelry away, warns you that some vital estate is threatening you.
To think you have quit dram-drinking, or find that others have done so, shows that you will rise above present estate and rejoice in prosperity.
For a young woman to dream of mining coal, foreshows she will become the wife of a real-estate dealer or dentist.
To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some enemies are undermining you, and you will have much distress; but if you succeed in clearing your feet of corns, you will inherit a large estate from some unknown source.
If young persons dream of climbing to heaven on a ladder, they will rise from a low estate to one of unusual prominence, but will fail to find contentment or much pleasure.
The family of Stillington continued to flourish at Acaster and Kelfield, in the parish of Stillingfleet; greatly improving their estate by a marriage with the heiress of FitzHenry.
The stove had made the barn a dwelling and he had forfeited his estate and his liberty.
The chauffeur sounded his horn and an old man dressed in the peasant costume of the lodge-keeper of a feudal estate of Central Europe emerged from the cottage built into the walls of the cliff and opened the gates without a word.
All who kept the first estate were added upon; but not all alike.
It was hoped that when he came to man's estate things would improve, but the reverse was the case.
The romantic Thetford, who resigned his title and estate to a mysteriously-found elder brother, you know.
And that would have been a pity, you know, for the Thetford estate would have gone to a distant branch of the family.
Some business connected with Mr. Darcy's estate has brought him, and she has asked him, constrainedly enough, for news of Laurence Thorndyke.
