Tell me, however, one thing,--does not Sir Simeon of Roydon inherit the estates of this poor Lady Catherine?
The development of vast private estates at the expense of the public and imperial domains was another prominent characteristic of the times.
The most important privilege enjoyed by the senators was their exemption from the control of the officials of the municipalities within whose territories their estates were situated.
There the royal lands of the Seleucids became the public land of Rome, and out of this the Roman magnates of the later Republic developed vast estates which in turn were concentrated in the hands of Augustus.
Hence the coloni were forbidden to leave the estateswhere they had once established themselves as tenants.
There, at the opening of the principate, outside of the municipal territories, the land fell into ager publicus, private estates of Roman senators and imperial domains.
From them were recruited the lower ranks of the civil service, they filled every trade and profession, the commerce of the empire was largely in their hands, they became the managers of estates and of business undertakings of all sorts.
The relation of these coloni to the contractors as well as to the owners of private estates or their bailiffs (vilici), was regulated by an edict of a certain Mancia, apparently a procurator under the Flavians.
The coloni comprised both landless residents on the estates and small landholders from neighboring villages.
This he secured by confiscating the estates of the adherents of Niger and Albinus.
Each district comprised a number of estates (saltus, fundi).
Apparently, the clients were tenants who tilled the estatesof the patricians, to whom they stood for a long time in a condition of economic and political dependence.
They had neared the flank of the Jumbe mountain, and were heading for the ridge that separated the estates of Montagu Castle and Mount Welcome.
It was chiefly upon these distant estatesthat Chakra held communication with his confederates and clients.
But you speak as if the two estates were to be joined together?
It is true that many of the higher clergy were feudal lords, and that even the monasteries owned vast estates which were parceled out among tenants.
He was of German birth, a convert to Protestantism, and the owner of large estates in the Netherlands.
At the same time powerful feudal lords frequently obtained control of the monasticestates by appointing as abbots their children or their retainers.
Rebellion proved to be an especially difficult matter in England, since the estates which a great lord possessed were not all in any one place but were scattered about the kingdom.
In the same way one who had received large estates would parcel them out among his followers, in return for their support.
Many nobles also became Huguenots, sometimes because of religious conviction, but often because the new movement offered them an opportunity to recover their feudal independence and to plunder the estates of the Church.
This decision was afterwards justified on the ground that, by the old law of the Salian Franks, women could neither inherit estates nor transmit them to a son.
The peasant on his little homestead could not compete with the wealthy noble whose vast estates were worked by gangs of slaves.
It was the slaves who did most of the work on the large estates owned by wealthy men, who toiled in the mines and quarries, and who served as oarsmen on the ships.
The Córtes had assembled and all four brazos or Estates united in remonstrances against the threatened violation of the fueros and privileges of the land and threw every impediment in the way of the inquisitors.
He accumulated immense wealth, which by a stratagem he transferred to Spain, where it purchased the estates on which the greatness of the house was based.
A certain Mossen Luis Masquo, one of the jurats of Valencia, made himself especially conspicuous in exciting the city against the inquisitors and in stimulating united action in opposition by the Estates of the kingdom.
Then the Four Estates of the realm were called together to deliberate on a subject which involved the liberties of the whole land.
The chief objections urged against it were the secrecy of procedure and the confiscation of estates and, as these were the veriest commonplaces of inquisitorial business, it shows how completely the old institution had been dormant.
Lords and bishops held vast estates and paid no taxes.
Great general prosperity followed, and the gentry, who had threatened to abandon their estates if the Corn Laws were repealed, simply raised their rents a trifle and increased the gaming limit.
Most estates held serfs who were not allowed to leave the premises of their lord on penalty of death--they belonged to the land.
The worst offenders were the greedy courtiers who had secured the estates of the English monasteries.
The residue of her property she left to that other grandson who inherited the title andestates of her husband.
The King of France is a captive; his Queen is devoted to the cause of Henry, the Duke of Burgundy is his ally, and he only needs the formal recognition of the Estates to take possession of the French throne.
Decreed the confiscation of the estates of the tories, appointed the necessary officers to execute the decree, and despatched messengers to them with commissions, instructions, and with orders to put the machine immediately into motion.
What has become of the estates of those in their own country, who, like ourselves, have rebelled against their government?
Yes, yes, we all know that, I suppose; but where do the purchasers of these estates get the money to buy with?
Their estates will all be seized and given to the deserving.
But where is the money to come from to pay my recruits: Even in case these estates are sold, who among us, these times, has money to purchase them?
This was immediately followed by the passage of the decree named in the resolution, specifying the names of those thus far fairly identified as openly espousing the British cause in Vermont, and declaring their estates forfeited to its use.
Thus men of family often lose their property or rights of citizenship; but they remain in the city, full of hatred against the new owners of their estates and ripe for revolution.
Do not their leaders deprive the rich of their estates and distribute them among the people; at the same time taking care to reserve the larger part for themselves?
The result was that a certain number of Irish estates were added to the possessions of a certain number of English families.
Here 's Wykeham thrust forth by John of Gaunt, all his estates confiscate, and he hunted hither and yon by the king's men.
I was in the company of a party of gentlemen the other day who had bought a number of estates in a town twenty miles from Boston, and the subject of a suitable breed of dogs for their residences was under discussion.
His experiments had a world-wide reputation and the writer, when he first visited his large estates near London, little dreamed that in after years he would personally benefit by Sir John's work.
There were, indeed, estates which had neither owners nor managers resident on them.
The last time when the estates were called upon to decide between a number of claimants for the sovereignty, was in 1707, on the death of the Duchess of Nemours without issue.
The estates of many of the Cavalier gentlemen were forfeited.
With two such bodies he might face the enemy, and make a day of it; but now his men were only sacrificed, and eaten up by piecemeal in a party-war, and spent their lives and estates to do him no service.
According to his usual careful habits, he made out a long paper, in which he planned how his estates should be managed for several years, with a rotation of crops.
Washington left all of his estatesto his wife for life; after her death they were to be divided between his nephews and nieces, and Mrs. Washington's grandchildren.
These are but a few of the marvellous properties of the political drug, after the enumeration of which the report of the meeting of the Estates is introduced by a burlesque description of the grand procession which preceded it.
It was the meeting of the Estates in Paris which gave rise to that celebrated Satyre Menippee, of which it was said, that it served the cause of Henri IV.
Colonel Blunt and colonel Careless are two royalists, whose estates are in the hands of the committee of sequestrations, and who repair to London for the purpose of compounding for them.
This mock report of the meeting of the Estates closes with a description of a series of political pictures which are arranged on the wall of the staircase of the hall.
Above him is suspended a large portrait of the infanta of Spain, L'Espousee de la Ligue, as she is called in the satire, ready to marry any one whom the Estates shall declare king of France.
Ivry, and his devotion to that prince was so well known, that he was banished from Paris by the ligueurs, but had returned thither before the meeting of the Estatesin 1593.
One day a dashing young soldier came to visit his family, whose estates were in our neighbourhood.
Offers were made of estates which must be examined into.
While I was away I inherited, as you probably know, the estates of my mother's eldest brother.
There were letters to answer, plans to study, proposals and calculations to compare, or personal inspections to be made of estates for sale in the neighbourhood.
It is believed that in the troubled times preceding the American Revolution, Lord Murden's son succeeded to his father's large estates and returned to England to claim his inheritance.
His father, Antoine Sorrel des Riviere, Colonel du Genie (Engineer Corps) in the French Army, was on his estates in the island of San Domingo when the bloody insurrection of the blacks broke out at the opening of the century.
Some stately old residences, the "great houses" of large estates of the early Virginia families, are still to be seen; but alas!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
