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Personal Estate

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Personal property.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

That portion of one’s estate which passes to his executor and not to his heirs.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The term is somesupposition that there can be any such thing as an estate in personalty, properly so called. Will. Pers. Prop. 8. But Dicey (Confl. Laws, Moore’s ed. 311) considers personal estate and personal property synonymous. They are so used in Acts of Parliament.