1. Tbe interest which any one has in lands, or in any other subject of property. 1 Prest. Est. 20. And see Van Rensselaer v. Poacher, 5 Denio (N. Y.) 40; Beall v. Holmes, 6 Har. & J. (Md.) 208 ; Mul-ford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 103; Robertson v. VanCleave, 129 Ind. 217, 22 N. B. 899, 29 N. EL 781, 15 L. R. A. 68; Ball v. Chadwick, 46 IU. 31; Cutts v. Com., 2 Mass. 289; Jack-son v. Parker, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 81. An estate in lands, tenements, and hereditaments slg-nlfies such interest as the tenant has there-in. 2 Bl. Comm. 108. The condition or circumstance in which the owner stands with regard to bis property. 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 2, | 942. In this sense, “estate" is con-stantly used in conveyances in connection with the words “right," “title," and "interest,” and is, in a great degree, synonymous with all of them. See Co. Litt. 345.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
