estate
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The number of available spaces across the male prison estate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest this year, sources have told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
An executor has a fiduciary responsibility to transparently and honestly deal with all aspects of the deceased’s estate, including paying creditors and taxes and distributing assets to heirs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
For most people, owning a vacation home is the ultimate real estate dream—but for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, even a sprawling mansion isn’t quite private enough.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Here are seven celebrities who have taken luxury real estate to the extreme, with spectacular island purchases around the world.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Her hooves dash on the ground, carrying her down the hills of Benefo’s estate.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
She was one of the few Chinese students, and was surrounded by scions of centuries-old wine estates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Much less populous Iowa pursued 16,279 estates and recovered $25 million from 3,397 of them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
I’m a writer who has been sent out on assignment to the stucco estates of suburban Los Angeles to profile a young socialist named Hasan Piker.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Because relatives were sometimes impossible to locate, the committee began to administer the estates of the deceased who had no legal heirs or executors available.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
"Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!" said Mrs. Guffern.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.
From Three Plays by Padraic Colum
It was all the difference between rank and obscurity—between wealth and want—between the condition of an estated gentleman and the assumption of a mere pretender.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
There were deeds, and bonds, and leases, rent-rolls, and valuations, and powers of attorney, and all the other imposing accessories of estated property.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
When Councillor Holmes comes down at the assizes, I'll lay a case before him, and I'll wager a trifle, Peter, you will turn out to be an estated gentleman.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
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