Sentence examples for estates were divided from inspiring English sources
During the mid-20th century migration to the suburbs, many of Manchester's estates were divided into apartments or fell into disrepair.
On his death, his estates were divided between his two sons William (or Guillaume), the elder, succeeding to the Norman fiefs, and Roger Fitzwilliam, the younger, succeeding to the earldom of Hereford and the English estates.
Equal division was the rule-between 70 and 83% of estates were divided equally, depending on the strictness of the definition of equal division.
From 1765 the Assheton estates were divided between the two daughters of the late Ralph Assheton, one of whom married Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton.
Following Sir Roger Lewknor's death in 1543, his estates were divided among his descendants, and the castle and manor were split.
His estates were divided between his three sisters, one of whom was married to the king's new favourite, Hugh Despenser the Younger.
In 1979 a new board of the Mark Rothko Foundation was established, and all the works in the estate were divided between the artist's two children and the Foundation.
The experts assembled by the Hansard Society, in a windowless conference room in an obscure corner of the Parliamentary estate, were divided on this one.
Because the two never married, and because Larsson died intestate, his estate was divided between his father and brother.
A person to whom a testator leaves his entire estate is called a légataire universel; when the estate is divided, the beneficiaries are called légataires à titre universel.
