He made so much money that he could afford to run several cars, a large staff and sizeable estate.
He never married or had known children, and left a sizeable estate.
While he knew Latin classics and maintained a sizeable estate, these things were secondary, and the law was his main concern.
The ruthless dowager queen Brunhilda, who was later accused of conspiring to murder ten Merovingian kings, gifted her with a sizeable estate.
Despite its privileges and sizeable landed estates, from the late 14th century the abbey began to suffer financially and was forced to lease out its estates.
Like several other countries in the region, Dominica runs an economic citizenship programme enabling foreigners to acquire citizenship of the island and the passport to go with it by paying money into a state fund or making a sizeable real estate investment.
North of the A11, hemmed in by the Olympic park and Westfield, is the 1968-built Carpestate estate, a sizeable site of tower blocks, low-level flats, houses and neat green spaces, which in the last 10 years has gone from being an area of land worth next to nothing to a piece of prime property.
And when you die, they will expect a sizeable chunk of your estate.
America's estate tax is levied at a high rate (a marginal rate of 55% for the biggest estates), but it kicks in only after a sizeable exemption (in effect, the first $1.35m of gross estate per couple, rising to $2m by 2006, goes untaxed).
At James Pendleton, one of several high-end estate agents in a street near the common, advertising sizeable terraced properties for just under £1.5m, Peter Clarkson said he had heard from buyers trying to cut deals and a seller who thought they might be able to benefit.
