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Estate

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

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Barony 76% connected

The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

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Commons 76% connected

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.

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Countryseat 76% connected

an estate in the country

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Entail 76% connected

That which is entailed.

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Feoff 76% connected

To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

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Fief 76% connected

An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.

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Freehold 76% connected

An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.

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Glebe 76% connected

A lump; a clod.

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Hacienda 76% connected

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…

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Homestead 76% connected

The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.

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Jointure 76% connected

A joining; a joint.

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Leasehold 76% connected

Held by lease.

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Manor 76% connected

The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his fami…

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Plantation 76% connected

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.

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Seigniory 76% connected

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

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Class 76% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Holding 76% connected

of Hold

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Immovable 76% connected

Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Realty 76% connected

Royalty.

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Stratum 76% connected

A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds…

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Commonwealth 70% connected

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

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Country 70% connected

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region o…

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Land 70% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Nation 70% connected

A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

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State 70% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Demesne 92% connected

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining,…

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Land 92% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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