WordNet
net estate
n. the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes)
Usage examples of "net estate".
As a result of the several salvage projects he undertook he was able to leave a handsome motor sailer and almost a million dollars' net estate to his daughter.
So with this issue, our net estate: to have become, like the noted music of our tongue, these silent, visible signs.