estancia (estansia)

[Sp. Pg., = E. stance, q. v.] A mansion; a dwelling; an establishment; in Spanish America, a landed estate; a domain. We stopped for a time at Mr. Holt's large estancia, where the traces of the ravages of the locusts were only too visible. Lady Bra ey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. vi. estate (es-tāt'), n. [ I gin to be a-weary of the sun, And wish the estate o' the world were now undone. Shak., Macbeth, v. 5. 2. Condition or circumstances of a person or thing; situation; especially, the state of a person as regards external circumstances. I will settle you after your old estates . Ezek. xxxvi. 11. The congregated college have concluded That labouring art can never ransom nature From her inaidable estate . Shak., All's Well, ii. 1. Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green? Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxiv. Thou, O Most Compa ionate! Who didst stoop to our estate. Whittier, My Dream. 3. Rank; quality; status. Who hath not heard of the greatne of your estate? Sir P. Sidney estate He [the chancellor] had said that "if he had done anything that touched the king in his sovereign estate , he would not answer for it to any person alive save only to the king when he came to his age." Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 333. 4. Style of living: usually with a distinctive epithet, high, great, etc., implying pomp or dignity. His doughter quene of Inde as ye shall here, Kepyng right grete estate withynne the lande. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 18. 5. In law: (a) The legal position or status of an owner, considered with respect to his property; ownership, tenancy, or tenure; property in land or other things. When the thing in question is an immovable, such as land, etc., the estate, if a fee, or for a life or lives, is termed real. (See real.) If it is only for a term of years, or relates only to movables, it is termed personal. Land was once not regarded as property at all. People owned not the land, but an estate in the land; and these estates still continue to haunt, like ghosts, the language of real property law. Sir J. F. Stephen , National Rev., Laws relating to Land. (b) More technically, and with relation only to land, the degree or quantity of interest, considered in respect to the nature of the right, its period of duration, or its relation to the rights of others, which a person has in land. If that interest, in a given case, does not amount to an absolute entire ownership, it is because there is at the same time another interest in the same thing pertaining to other persons. Thus, one man may have the ultimate right of property, another the right of po e ion, and a third actual po e ion: each of these interests being qualified or incomplete estates , which, if transferred to and merged in one person, would constitute an absolute estate or fee simple. (See merger.) Such special estates are said to be carved out of the fee. A future estate that is, one which is not to be enjoyed until a future time - is neverthele deemed to have a present existence in anticipation, even if it may never take effect, or if it is wholly uncertain who will be its owner; it is, in such case, called a contingent estate. N. Y. Rev. St. , III. 2175, § 5. The grant of land to a man, without specifying what es tate he is to take, will to this day give him no interest beyond his own life. F. Pollock , Land Laws, p. 55. 6. Property in general; po e ions; particularly, the property left at a man's death: as, at his death his estate was of the value of half a million; the trustees proceeded to realize the estate. Which charge of feeding so many beastly [beasts'] mouths is able to eat up a countryman's estate, The Great Frost (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 89). 7. A piece of landed property; a definite portion of land in the ownership of some one: as, there is more wood on his estate than on mine. No need to sweat for gold, wherewith to buy Estates of high-priz'd land. Quarles , Emblems, v. 9. But that old man, now lord of the broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd. Tennyson, Maud, i. 5. 2010 Cap of estate. Same as cap of maintenance (which see, under maintenance ). - Cloth of estate. See cloth. Con ditional estate, or estate upon condition, an estate the existence of which depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event, whereby the estate may be either originally created or enlarged, or finally defeated. Black stone. See condition, 8.- Conventional estates. See conventional. - Convention of estates. See convention. - Equitable estate or title, a right to claim the profits or enjoyment of ownership from the person who holds the legal title as trustee; a beneficial interest, recognized by courts of equity as belonging to one person, while the legal title-that is, the title recognized by courts of common law - is in another person. Thus, sometimes a trustee is said to hold the legal title to the trust property, and the beneficiary an equitable estate or title. Estate at will, that estate held by one who is in po e ion of the land of another by his consent, and holds it at the will of the latter, or at the will of both parties. - Estate by statute. See statute. - Estate by sufferance. See sufferance. - Estate by the courtesy. See courtesy of England (under courtesy ). - Estate for life, an estate limited to a man to hold the same for the term of his own life, or for that of any other person, or for more lives than one. ( Stephen.) When used without qualification, esteem He intended that son to my profe ion, and had provided him already 300£. a-year, of his own gift in church livings, and hath estated 300£. more of inheritance for their chil dren. Donne, Letters, lxx. To the onely use and behoof of my s'd child, I do hereby estate and intrust all the particulers hereafter mentioned. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 458. 3. To settle an estate upon; endow with an estate or other property. Then would I, More especially were he, she wedded, poor, Estate them with large land and territory In mine own realm beyond the narrow seas. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine.