Is a trust an estate?
Usually not until trust has gone into Probate, but there may be other circumstance, not really an expert on trusts as of yet.
This is what we are attempting to do with CS is voluntarily probating the name in trust so the State can do it's job and take care of the accounting as stated in Article 55 of the rules of Warfare On Land at the Hague.
Article 55
The occupying State shall only be regarded as administrator and usufructuary of the public buildings, real property, forests, and agricultural works belonging to the hostile State, and situated in the occupied country. It must protect the capital of these properties, and administer it according to the rules of usufruct.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_cent...ue02.asp#art55
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Alright ... allow me to qualify. You have given a valid sense of estate. Allow me to expand and broaden the term a bit ...
Estates and ownership interests defined
The law recognizes different sorts of interests, called estates, in real property. The type of estate is generally determined by the language of the deed, lease, bill of sale, will, land grant, etc., through which the estate was acquired. Estates are distinguished by the varying property rights that vest in each, and that determine the duration and transferability of the various estates. A party enjoying an estate is called a "tenant."An estate is a placeholder, a representative.Common Law
In English common law, the Crown has radical title or the allodium of all land in England, meaning that it is the ultimate "owner" of all land. However, the Crown can grant ownership in an abstract entity—called an estate in land—which is what is owned, rather than the land it represents. The fee simple estate is also called "estate in fee simple" or "fee-simple title" and sometimes simply freehold in England and Wales. From the start of the Norman period, when feudalism was introduced to England, the tenant or "holder" of a fief could not alienate it from the possession of his overlord, that is to say sell it, but instead could separate off a parcel of the land and grant it as a subordinate fief to his own sub-tenant, a process known as sub-enfeoffing or "subinfeudation". The 1290 Statute of Quia Emptores abolished subinfeudation and instead allowed the sale of fee simple estates.[1]
You have made and excellent point here with the insertions, making further connection from this though once we return the name to the state voluntarily probate it then does all the holdings become estate? I am leaning towards the notion that "when the property is even registered in the state it is considered in Probate since most states are called Probate states?" If this is the case then since we have not done it yet and had planned to is return the BC name into the state so all accounting against it can be settled through the same type of probate.
Two things:
The concept of an estate existed in English Common Law with regard to land AND other forms of property such as an estate in land.
The sociological concept of an estate existed in England and France i.e. The Three Estates, Ancien Regime, etc.
Probate came into play during regulation of who would inherit land (heirs), how much, and by what means. Of course, the definitions and senses of the term estate have been modified, subverted, etc. over time.