QUE ESTATE
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
Origin: French
L. Fr. Whose estate. A term used in pleading, particularly in claiming prescription, by which it is alleged that the plaintiff and those former owners whose estate he has have immemorially exercised the right claimed. This was called “prescribing in a que estate.” ;
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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