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.