There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

But as yet, no real estate board has been willing officially to support such laws or to admit the permissibility of introducing minority buyers into all-white neighborhoods.

Since then, real estate development in the area has continued robustly.

Te-cheng's sister, Kong Demao, lives in mainland China and has written a book about her experiences growing up at the family estate in Qufu.

Trudeau has also displayed fluency in various forms of jargon, including those of real estate agents, flight attendants, computer scientists, journalists, presidential aides, and soldiers in Iraq.

In Pistis Sophia Yaldabaoth has already sunk from his high estate and resides in Chaos, where, with his forty-nine demons, he tortures wicked souls in boiling rivers of pitch, and with other punishments ( pp. 257, 382 ).

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

This assumes, of course, that the decedent has enough of an estate to make the heirs pause before doing something that will invoke the alternate bequest.

Legalization advocates also question why " trading " where one party has more information than the other is legal in other markets, such as real estate, but not in the stock market.

Jordan has benefited greatly from serving as a " gateway " to Iraq for governments, aid workers, contractors, and businesspeople, the real estate and banking sectors are booming, and it stands to reap more benefits from increased trade and transport should the situation in Iraq improve.

At the time it was mentioned " Brown has also branched out into real estate and music publishing in recent months ".

Hay's New Hampshire estate has been conserved as part of the John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests ' John Hay Land Studies Center, and the Garden Conservancy's Fells Reservation.

From an initial twelve acres, Al-Fayed has since built the estate up to sixty five thousand acres.

Al-Fayed has invested more than £ 20 million in the estate, restored the 14th century pink Balnagowan castle, and created a tourist accommodation business.

Gebelawi has built a mansion in an oasis in the middle of a barren desert ; his estate becomes the scene of a family feud which continues for generations.

Tradition has it that he died and was buried possibly in Corwen church of SS Mael & Sulien close to his home, or possibly at his estate in Sycharth or on the estates of his daughters ' husbands — Kentchurch in south Herefordshire or Monnington in west Herefordshire.

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio which includes technology companies, real estate holdings, and stakes in other technology, media, and content companies.

Lex situs is applied to immovable property ( i. e., real estate ), and the law of matrimonial domicile applies to movable property, provided there has been no subsequent change in the spouses ’ domicile.

* In the film The Hindenburg ( 1975 ), the German countess played by Anne Bancroft leaves Germany because her estate in Peenemünde has been confiscated by the Nazi Germans.

In English Common Law, real property, real estate, realty, or immovable property is any subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts: any buildings, machinery, wells, dams, ponds, mines, canals, roads, etc.

For example, an apartment-dweller with a one year lease has a leasehold estate in her apartment.

In addition to the now booming tourism and building / real estate markets, Seychelles has renewed its commitment to developing its financial services sector.

This has allowed the banks, particularly the geographically and industrially diversified large banks like BBVA and Santander, to weather the real estate deflation better than expected.

In English, " state " is a contraction of the word " estate ", which is similar to the old French estat and the modern French état, both of which signify that a person has status and therefore estate.

It is not surprising that, as spokesman for real estate interests, the National Association of Real Estate Boards ( NAREB ) and its local associations have sought to limit and often ignore much of this pressure.

The latest of many public battles concerns the plans of the Port Authority of Alicante to construct an industrial estate on reclaimed land in front of the city's coastal strip, in breach of local, national and European regulations.

The bulk of the documents relate to the running of a large, private estate is named after Heroninos because he was phrontistes ( Koine Greek: manager ) of the estate which had a complex and standarised system of accounting which was followed by all its local farm managers.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

The 1614 rules differed from practices of local assemblies, where each member had one vote and third estate membership was doubled.

Surveyors involved in real estate and insurance will use these to tie their local measurements to.

Her frequent visits to the estate also allowed her to contrast the wealth in which the local landowner lived with the lives of the often much poorer people on the estate, and different lives lived in parallel would reappear in many of her works.

* Reginald Front-de-Boeuf – a local baron who was given Ivanhoe's estate by Prince John

When real estate is held by a higher government unit or some other entity not subject to taxation by the local government, the taxing authority may receive a payment in lieu of taxes to compensate it for some or all of the foregone tax revenue.

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | ITEP estimate of the total effective tax rate for federal, state and local taxes ( personal and corporate income, payroll, property, sales, excise, estate, etc.

The security and continued prosperity of the wealthy estate must have necessitated formal ties with local kings or chieftains, which explains the adoption of the distinctly Thracian royal name " Όloros " into the family.

When Harding moved to unseat the Marion Independent as the official daily paper, he was met with strong resistance from local figures, such as Amos Hall Kling, one of Marion's wealthiest real estate speculators.

His father had died in 1761, so when he turned 21 he inherited the impressive estate of Revesby Abbey, in Lincolnshire, becoming the local squire and magistrate, and sharing his time between Lincolnshire and London.

As a result, only a part of the real estate was taken over mainly for a local government by 1992, whereas a legal dispute over the other party carried on till 2000.

This process is sometimes made feasible by government-promoted private real estate investment repairing the local infrastructure.

Gradually Rugby's fame spread it was no longer desirable to have only local boys attending and the nature of the school shifted, and so a new school – Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School – was founded in 1878 to continue Lawrence Sheriff's original intentions ; that school receives a substantial proportion of the endowment income from Lawrence Sheriff's estate every year.

He visits his family estate and discovers that his father's agents are oppressing the local peasantry and probably cheating his father as well.

Crystal River is home to a mixed coal and nuclear power plant, the Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant which is a major contributor to local real estate taxes.

Because of the fundamental value of land and real estate to the local and global economy, land surveying was one of the first professions to require Professional Licensure.

The Big Mac Index is presumably useful because it is based on a well-known food whose final price, easily tracked in many countries, includes input costs from a wide range of sectors in the local economy, such as agricultural commodities ( beef, bread, lettuce, cheese ), labor ( blue and white collar ), advertising, rent and real estate costs, transportation, etc.

Real estate prices are often quoted in taels of gold rather than the local currency over concerns over monetary inflation.

Reaction to the development by industry professionals was lukewarm, some criticising its small scale Subsequent local authorities concentrated on high rise, high density social housing rather than the Lansbury estate model.

Buss was a local chemical engineer and former University of Southern California professor who had become wealthy in real estate.