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 turned out that she also sold real estate, cosmetics, and hospital insurance.

In 2001, the other beneficiaries sold their interest in the estate to the Disney Corporation for $ 350m.

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.

In 1938 the site was sold to a builder, who planned to demolish the mansion and build a estate.

When the estate was sold in 1889, Churnsike Lodge was purchased by the Chesters Estate ( near Hexham, Northumberland ).

Rosenthal claimed that millions of dollars Day lost were in real estate sold after Melcher died in 1968, in which Rosenthal asserted that the attorneys gave Day bad advice, telling her to sell, at a loss, three hotels, in Palo Alto, Dallas and Atlanta and some oil leases in Kentucky and Ohio.

* Real estate: Real estate may be purchased with illegal proceeds, then sold.

Others that are subject to these regulations include financial institutions, credit institutions, estate agents ( which includes chartered surveyors ), trust and company service providers, high value dealers ( who accept cash equivalent to € 15, 000 or more for goods sold ), and casinos.

" If a life estate can be sold, a sale does not change its duration, which is limited by the natural life of the original grantee.

Four years later, Talcott sold the Giants to Andrew Freedman, a real estate developer with ties to Tammany Hall.

Soong sold her Long Island estate in 2000 and spent the rest of her life in a Gracie Square apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan owned by her niece.

He gave instructions for disposal of his assets in his Will and after his death, his estate, possessions and slaves were sold off in public auctions starting in 1827.

Brodess's death increased the likelihood that Tubman would be sold and the family would be broken apart, as that frequently happened in the settlement of an estate.

In June 2006, much of her estate was auctioned by Christie's to meet inheritance tax, though some of the items were sold in aid of charities such as the Stroke Association.

The poet Thomas Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin and, in 1790, they were sold to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first botanic gardens.

In May 2011, the hotel was sold to real estate developer Joseph Chetrit for US $ 80 million dollars.

Hyundai subsequently sold the plant, which was eventually purchased by Olymbec inc, a Quebec real estate developer.

He sold shoreline belonging to Fairbank, the William Ogden estate, the Farwell family, Potter Palmer, the Pine Street Land Association and the Chicago Title and Trust Company.

The franchise company was started in 1969 as National Fast Food Corp. National Fast Food's principals at the time included S. Robert Davis, a real estate developer who built and leased several Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken properties, his friend Dave Thomas, who sold his Colonel Sanders franchises back to that company for $ 3, 000, 000 and went on to found Wendy's, and L. S. Hartzog, who at the time ran a chain of bakeries selling biscuits to Colonel Sanders franchisees nationally.

On the other hand, on the great estates in Assyria and its subject provinces there were many serfs, mostly of subject race, settled captives, or quondam slaves ; tied to the soil they cultivated and sold with the estate, yet capable of possessing land and property of their own.

The investigation also turned up some facts which supported Dorsett's story: documents relating to the sale of Washington's estate list " plates arms U. S ." being sold to Thomas Hammond ( a son-in-law of Charles Washington and therefore a nephew by marriage to George Washington ), and also the Hammond and Dorsett families both had roots in West Virginia just a few miles apart.

Some generations later, the part of the estate containing Shepton Mallet was sold to a relative, Sir Thomas Gournay.