Estate
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
estate · an estate · business · estates · goods and chattels · house · property · slaves · ضيعة · عبيد
spoken of as
1 expressionThe estate1 mention
Adab al-wazīr (Arabic)
and whoever has an estate and manages it well, put him over the land-tax (kharāj).
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Economics
An estate is the total possession or property of a person insofar as it is useful for livelihood.
Well now, we thought that estate management is the name of a branch of knowledge, and this knowledge appeared to be that by which men can increase estates, and an estate appeared to be identical with the total of one’s property, and we said that property is that which is useful for supplying a livelihood, and useful things turned out to be all those things that one knows how to use.
Is it the same thing as a house, or is all property that one possesses outside the house also part of the estate?
Yes, because my property is sufficient to satisfy my wants, but I don’t think you would have enough to keep up the style you are living in and to support your reputation, even if your fortune were three times what it is.
Adab al-wazīr
Private slaves and landed estate, cited as the small-scale objects of management that qualify a man for the corresponding public department.
and whoever has an estate and manages it well, put him over the land-tax (kharāj).