(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

Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on. / (informal) Space used for a particular purpose.

(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.

Referring or relating to real 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.

(originally) The caste of commoners in France prior to 1789. / (by extension) The commoners, collectively, in any society. / (politics) The House of Commons.

An area of buildings intended primarily for industrial purposes, i.e. factories and related services and infrastructure, rather than for living in.