The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.

Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

And that's how Papa's estate was divided.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

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.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

He wondered whether Needham was going to swear off gambling and get a steady job or whether he was counting on the income from Betty's estate to subsidize him.

The gift is being presented by `` heirs and descendants of the Rutherford family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, `` Tranquility '', was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N. J..

They would become tagged as men not interested in being purely real estate `` professionals '' but agitators for some kind of `` cause '' or `` reform '', and this was no longer to be a `` pro ''.

Freddy needed a job, having been detached from a rather dangerous career in real estate and skyscraper financing by Gerry, and it was up to Arthur Willis to provide him with one.

Lincoln was close to the Todds, and he and his family occasionally visited the Todd estate in Lexington.

Lynchehaun had been employed by McDonnell as her land agent, but the two fell out and he was sacked and told to quit his accommodation on her estate.

On May 23, 1845, Abby May was granted a sum from her father's estate which was put into a trust fund, granting minor financial security.

The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

Towards 57, Agrippina was expelled from the palace and went to live in a riverside estate in Misenum.

A prominent family with this surname is the Cuban noble family that was involved in Cuban real estate prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

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.

It is a working estate, including grouse moors, forestry and farmland, as well as managed herds of deer, Highland cattle and ponies.

He acquired one-third of the Custis estate upon his marriage, worth approximately $ 100, 000, and managed the remainder on behalf of Martha's children, for whom he sincerely cared.

In many countries the Torrens title system of real estate ownership is managed and guaranteed by the government and replaces cumbersome tracing of ownership.

In 2011 Paul Newman's estate gifted land to Westport to be managed by the Aspetuck Land Trust.

A daughter's estate was usually managed for her by her brothers, but if they dissatisfied her, she could appoint a steward.

He bequeathed all future UK-only income ( but not the copyrights which belong to Stedman Mays, Mary Tahan and Phillip Ward and managed by Mr. Ward ) from his entire literary estate to the two men he considered to have had the greatest influence on his career: Richard Gollner, his long-time agent, and Donald Carroll.

About four kilometres ( or 2½ miles ) south-east of Ommen and adjacent to the hamlet of Eerde lies the castle Eerde, a castle in the Dutch-classical style from 1715, surrounded by a 1, 667 hectare estate in the Baroque style managed by the Natuurmonumenten foundation since 1965.

John Hostettler, in his biography of Matthew Hale, points out that his father's concerns about giving colour in pleadings could not have been very strong " since he not only retired to his estate at Alderley where he managed to live on his wife's inherited income, but also directed in his will that Matthew should make a career in the law ".

Here they managed the family estate as independently wealthy gentlemen-farmers, raising beets and producing sugar.

Now diversified into lumber, railroads, etc., Nora's fortune is apparently vast indeed and is managed for the couple by her father's former partner who lives in an estate on Long Island's North Shore " Gold Coast.

A number of wealthy women became important long-term donors to the House, including Helen Culver, who managed her first cousin Charles Hull's estate, and who eventually allowed them to use the house rent free, Louise deKoven Bowen, Mary Rozet Smith, Mary Wilmarth, and others.

The estate is managed by the National Trust and consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens, in a deer park in the Peak District National Park.

After Arbus's death, her daughter Doon managed Arbus's estate.

( The Time-Life Building, McGraw-Hill and News Corporation / Fox News Channel headquarters are part of the Rockefeller Center extension now owned / managed by the major private real estate firm, Rockefeller Group.

The estate was gifted to the National Trust by the Anson family in 1960 in lieu of death duties: it is managed on behalf of the owners by the Staffordshire County Council.

It managed to build more boarding houses on the estate, removing the need of a house in Altyre, Forres, many miles away from the main campus.

Matrimonial regimes, or marital property systems, are systems of property ownership between spouses providing for the creation or absence of a marital estate, and if created, what properties are included in that estate, how and by whom it is managed, and how it will be divided and inherited at the end of the marriage.

The estate is now managed by Eastend Homes, and is currently ( 2012 ) undergoing a major programme of regeneration, which will see the demolition and replacement of several of the blocks.

Though Washington experienced a massive real estate boom that helped alleviate the city ’ s fiscal problems for a time, government spending skyrocketed ; the administration managed to post a fifth straight budget surplus, but the next year struggled with a $ 110 million deficit.

The estate has 562 flats, all managed on behalf of Westminster City Council by MEMO, the largest tenant management organisation ( TMO ) in Westminster.

Extending to 631ha, it is owned and managed by the National Trust following the Bankes bequest of the Kingston Lacy estate.

George M. Maverick recounted that in 1845, Mr. Maverick acquired some 400 head of cattle that he, whose interest was in real estate, did not want in payment of a debt to him by a neighbor of $ 1, 200, leaving the cattle to be managed by an African American family.

Upon her death it passed to Caesar Augustus who managed it as a private imperial estate, a status it was to maintain for at least a century.

His principal business interest was of course the vast Astor Estate real estate holdings in New York City, which he managed profitably and parsimoniously.