equitable estate

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
EQUITABLE ESTATE. An equitable estate is a right or interest in land, which, 
not having the properties of a legal estate, but being merely a right of 
which courts of equity will take notice, requires the aid of such court to 
make it available. 
     2. These estates consist of uses, trusts, and powers. See 2 Bouv. Inst. 
n. 1884. Vide Cestui que trust; Cestui que use. 
    

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