What is "estates"

Usage examples of "estates".

Apart from the dilution of privilege, the abolition also threatened, by example, the right of the nobles to demand comparable services from their own peasants on their estates, an effect that Turgot probably had in mind.

The monied nobility drew their income from a wide variety of sources which included rents and profits from landed estates, government bonds and debt notes and urban real estate.

There was, for example, no opposition to eliminate exemption from tolls paid in transporting produce from estates to markets.

Versailles to ask either for the Estates of the province or the nation.

At a preliminary meeting of the Estates of Dauphine at Romans, the Bishop, now bereft of his patrons in the government, had, it seemed, uttered some words of imprudence.

In that version the Estates met, deliberated and voted in separate orders.

The proceedings in the Dauphine had already breached that precedent, and Mounier and his colleagues had determined that when their provincial Estates met it should be as a single body, voting as individual representatives.

Bested in both physical and political contests, they refused to elect deputies to the Estates at all.

Their resistance to enclosure of common land, pond drainage and woodland is perhaps better characterized as a struggle for capital resources with the agents of seigneurial estates than as blind conservatism.

In some places, like the estates of the Prince de Conde near Chantilly, villagers simply ignored the game laws and hunted at will.

In December a petition signed by over two hundred contradicted the right of the Estates to monopolize the representation of the province.

He announced this role even in the procession of the Estates at Aix, where he carefully placed himself a distance apart from and behind the file of nobles and thus some distance ahead of the Third.

Mirabeau was then barred from the Estates, but this of course only added to his popularity.

Ten days after his election to the Estates, on the tenth of April, and less than a month after his arrival at Autun, he disappeared for good.

In the countryside, human casualties were rarer but quite often stewards and bailiffs of seigneurial estates were badly beaten up before being driven off.