Sentence examples for personal estates from inspiring English sources

The khedive and his family were Egypt's principal landholders, possessing extensive personal estates quite apart from the state lands.

Each ruler had to build up personal estates of his own which he could only do through military conquest.

The real estate was not to be touched until the personal estate had been exhausted.

Accordingly, title to only the personal estate passed to the executor or administrator.

Added to his personal estate, the income left him a rich man at his death.

Unless a testator disposed otherwise, the payment of claims was from the personal estate.

In Anglo-American common law it was customary to distinguish between descent of real estate and distribution of personal estate.

In 1860, David alone reported his real estate value at $364,234 and the value of his personal estate at $250,000.

Until the 19th century, liability for the debts of a decedent was limited to the assets of his personal estate.

Yet the province nonetheless constituted his personal estate, and the planning process merged religious and political considerations with economic pressures.

He has given the nonprofit foundation running the complex 100 acres of his personal estate for building the private homes.