Estate

Estate may refer to:

  • Estate (law), a term in common law for a person's property, entitlements and obligations.
  • Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries.
  • Estate (land), the grounds and tenancies (such as farms, housing, woodland, parkland) associated with a very large property.
    • Housing estate, a group of houses built as a single development.
    • Industrial estate, and trading estate, property planned and sublet for industrial and commercial use.
  • Estate, a brand of major appliances, first from RCA, afterwards from Whirlpool Corporation.
  • Estate car, passenger car with a full-size back cargo compartment, a station wagon.
  • Estate (song), a 1960 Italian song and jazz standard.
  • Estate (album), a jazz piano album by Michel Petrucciani.
  • Estate, Information Technology term for a set of computers and other technology infrastructure, generally the total set owned by a corporation, as in "Estate Management." See ITIL and other standards.

Other articles related to "estate":

Halton House - History of The Halton Estate
1849 Sir George Dashwood auctioned the contents and, in 1853, the estate was sold to Baron Lionel de Rothschild, who was expanding his estate at Tring ... Lionel then gave the estate to his son Alfred de Rothschild ... At this time the estate covered approximately 1,500 acres (6 km²) in a triangle between Wendover, Aston Clinton and Weston Turville ...
New Lodge, South Yorkshire
... The ' New Lodge' estate is located to the north of Barnsley on the A61 near Athersley ... Today New Lodge is a predominantly council housing estate ... in 1946 for the express purpose of creating a new housing estate ...
Downham Estate
... The dominant feature of the area is the Downham Estate built by the London County Council during the late 1920s ... The first tenants of the estate were mainly former residents of inner city areas, such as Rotherhithe and the accommodation was spacious and luxurious compared to their ... The Downham Estate provides an example of the programme of building council housing occurring in Britain between the first and second world wars ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Estate
... Lane inherited ownership of the "Little House" literary estate for her lifetime only, all rights reverting to the Mansfield library after her death, according to her mother's will ...
Kwai Fong
... Kwai Fong is named after Kwai Fong Estate, a public housing estate ... Railway (MTR) served the area, there were only few private residential blocks west of the estate ...

Famous quotes containing the word estate:

    “Not a flock of wild geese cackles over our town, but it to some extent unsettles the value of real estate here, and, if I were a broker, I should probably take that disturbance into account.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Betrothal,” (1662)

    “Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)