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Apr

Estate

The Interest which any one has in lands, or in any other subject of property. 1 Prest.Est. 20

An estate in lands, tenements, and hereditaments signifies such interest as the tenant has therein. The condition or circumstance in which the owner stands in regard to his property. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p2 942

In this sense, “estate” is constantly 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

“There is no such legal entity as an estate. It is a convenient phrase, to identify the subject of litigation in the orphans’ court, and in proceedings in rem it may betreated as harmless superfluidity, but as a designation of a party to be served with a writ it is unknown to the law. It is not a person and cannot be can not sue or be sued. In re Harrisburg Trust Co., 80 Pa. Super.Ct. 585