estate for years

He had been helping himself to trust funds and estates for years.

As if I have not been doing the same here on the Estate for years!

The term estate for years may occasionally be used.

An estate for years is not automatically renewed.

He worked in real estate for years, still dabbles in it, though he's mostly retired.

I, who have nursed these fine estates for years with such care, am I to see them ruined in a single night?

Deutsche Telekom is fighting off accusations that it inflated the value of its real estate for years.

She still had the people who really mattered, they'd stuck by her. Jessica had run the riding stables on the estate for years.

'Every estate which must expire at a period certain and prefixed, by whatever words created, is an estate for years.

His heirs have been selling bits of the estate for years now at Sotheby's and Christie's.

Sustainable homes and "green" living have been popular trends in real estate for years now, but the latest buzzwords for buildings focus on their occupants.

Mr. Marovitz has been a fixture in Illinois politics and Chicago real estate for years.

The project manger was already known locally through her voluntary work, and had lived on the estate for years, both of which helped in her work.

Following Fleming's death, Janson-Smith looked after his estate for years, stepping in to safeguard it under some unlikely circumstances.

The people of Pentre Maelor have lived in the shadow of Wrexham's Industrial Estate for years.

With Mr. Gresham as an adviser, the estate for years generally rejected requests to create sequels or spinoffs to the Narnia series.

From 1920 to 1923 it was leased by Compton MacKenzie along with Herm and remained part of that estate for years, although it is currently part of a different one.

The estate for years and the life estate are estates not of inheritance; the owner owns nothing after the term of years has passed, and cannot pass on anything to his or her heirs.

(a) A mortgage is a contract by which specific property,including an estate for years in real property, is hypothecated for the performance of an act, without the necessity of a change of possession.

The council has neglected the estates for years, Thornhill being the worst one neglected (in my opinion) so anything that will bring some life into these shopping parade can only be good for the people that live there.

First perpetual dark-horse Baltmore took an early lead, then Beyonce blew out the house with a high-voltage show that cranked up the value of halftime real estate for years to come and reminded everyone what "it's got legs" means.

Bernice King and Martin Luther King III have accused their brother of tarnishing their parents' legacy with his business decisions, and say he has been operating The King Estate for years without their input.

He echoed a warning from Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, that the middle classes ignored the plight of people living on run-down estates for years and then paid the price when the inner city "came to call" last month.

Darcy himself refuses to tie Wickham's origin to his conduct, since he considers, in his letter to Elizabeth, that Wickham's father was "a very respectable man, who had the responsibility of the entire Pemberley estate for years" and admirably performed his duties.

Common temporal limitations include life estate, a land ownership that terminates upon the grantee's (or another person's) death even if the land had been granted to a third party, or a term of years, a lease for a specified term, such as in an estate for years.