(obsolete) A hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which governed legislation.

(Britain) A person or company that acts in the sale, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate etc for another. / (archaic) A land bailiff.

plural of estate for life

plural of life estate

(law) An estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.

(law) A life estate.

(law) Any portion of the testator's estate that is not specifically devised to someone in the will, or any property that is part of such a specific devise that fails (for example, due to the death of the intended beneficiary preceding that of the testator).

plural of residuary estate

A housing estate planned and built for the rehousing of people from decaying inner city areas, usually as part of the process of slum clearance.

Referring or relating to real estate.