Meanings of three estates in English

Ours is a government of three estates-viz., the law, opinion, and practice.

The Queen.-" Imeanthe three estates-theclergy, the nobles, and the cities."

This being touched with the sceptre, the three estates proceeded to elect their representatives.

Not in opinion, Sir John, which is one of the three estates of the government.

Originally it had consisted of three estates, which answered to the king, lords, and commons.

The remonstrance offered by the three estates of Brabant against the scheme had not influenced Philip.

He had quickly assembled the three estates at Paris, all of whom promised the king their aid.

This sturdy and wholesome contention among the three estates ended at last in the victory of the kings.

Life is made up, for such a mind, of men, women, and books; Hawthorne accepted all three estates.

Each estate voted as a unit, and two out of the three estates were sufficient to carry a measure.

Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of Parliament, the word is generally used to denote the three estates named above.

Is it not, that Hastings really was plotting to defeat the new settlement contrary to the intention of the three estates?

Everywhere, too, we find some attempt at representative assemblies, based on the principle of the three estates, clergy, nobles, and commons.

The Commons, the poorest of the three estates, established an exclusive right to originate all money grants to the king in 1407.

The Despensers had more advanced constitutional ideas than Lancaster, and pains were taken that this parliament should completely represent the three estates.

The clergy's speaker said in his address that the three estates, as heretofore, had but one mouth, one heart, and one spirit.