Members of the gentry exclusively were allowed to own estates populated by serfs; estates owned by nobles were made hereditary property, and the power to revoke title to an estate (as well as to revoke a nobleman's rank) was entrusted to the courts.
Starting with his first fully professional picture, TwentyFourSeven, in 1997, his films have been painful letters from Middle England about life on rundown estates populated by people who are rarely gainfully or happily employed: bullies, loners, eccentrics and assorted thugs, living lives of desperation both quiet and noisy.
It is a rough patch of urban real estate populated by guttersnipes, snitches, dealers, and rapists — and by plenty of decent and hardworking citizens who have to stand by and watch as their neighborhoods go to hell.
Not surprisingly, the list is populated with real estate investment trusts, banks and utilities.
Last great hope of a former giant of international manufacturing now populated entirely by estate agents and Cafe Neros.
Unfortunately, London's overall trajectory still points towards a cultral wasteland populated only by estate agents who long ago gave up trying to sell flats to each other and are now trying to escape their ennui by drinking themselves to death at All Bar One.
Unfortunately, London's overall trajectory still points towards a cultural wasteland populated only by estate agents who long ago gave up trying to sell flats to each other and are now trying to escape their ennui by drinking themselves to death at All Bar One.
Back when Maycroft was built, North Haven was sparsely populated, with large family estates and hog farms abutting one another.
Roselmack, for example, was appointed to broadcaster TF1 on the advice of former president Jacques Chirac, who wanted more diversity in the media following the 2005 riots on housing estates mainly populated by families with African and Arab backgrounds.
Much of this riverside estate is populated by the former Naval Dockyards, now known as Convoys Wharf, the Pepys Estate and some eastern fringes of the old Surrey Commercial Docks.
