separate estate

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separate estate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Separate \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ]
     1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected;
        separated; -- said of things once connected.
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              Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen.
                                                    xlix. 26.
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     2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said
        of things that have not been connected.
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              For such an high priest became us, who is holy,
              harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. --Heb.
                                                    vii. 26.
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     3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate
        spirit; the separate state of souls.
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     Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman
        independent of her husband.
  
     Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by
        her husband under deed of separation.
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        Sep"a*rate*ness, n.
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separate estate - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SEPARATE ESTATE. That which belongs to one only of several persons; as, the 
  separate estate of a partner, which does not belong to the partnership. 2 
  Bouv. Inst. n. 1519. 
       2. The separate estate of a married woman, is that which belongs to 
  her, and over which her husband has no right in equity. It may consist of 
  lands or chattels. 4 Barb. S. C. Rep. 407; 1 Const. R. 452; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 
  3996.