QUE ESTATE. These words literally translated signify quem statum, or which
estate. At common law, it is a plea by which a man prescribes in himself and
those whose estate he holds. 2 Bl. Com. 270; 18 Vin. Ab. 133-140; 2 Tho. Co.
Litt. 203; Co. Litt. 121 a; Hardress, 459 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 499.