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Subject: Terminology
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 19:43:55 -0500 (EST)

Here is some terminology concerning land for those of us who don't remember
everything. Would not be a bad idea to print this and keep in your
notebooks.

B.S. (in Court Records)- Bill of Sale

Chattel - any item of movable or immovable property except real estate, or
the free hold, or the things which are a part of it.

Deed - an instrument conveying real property.

Devisee- the person who receives the land or other real property by will.

Devisor - one who wills land to another.

Dower - a widow's life interest in a third part of the lands and tenements
her deceased husband owned at the time of his death.

Freehold - full title to an estate in lands.

Fee Simple - an absolute inheritance without conditions or restrictions

"Free and common soccage and not in capito or by Knight's service yielding" -
free land not subject to payment

Glebe - land belonging to a parish church or assigned to a minister as part
of his salary.

Grantee - he to whom the grant was made.

Grantor- he who makes the grant.

Hereditament - any property which may be transmitted by law of descent.

Indenture - an instrument of contract under seal. it can be between a master
and servant, a master and apprentice, or a deed signed by two or more
parties.

Leasehold- an agreement which creates a landlord-tenant relationship, an
estate on which ground rent is required.

Lien - a claim by one party upon the property of another for security in
payment of a debt.

Manor- a tract of land originally granted as a manor and let by the
proprietor to tenants in perpetuity or for a long term.

Marshaling - distributing the balance of an estate among the creditors when
the debts exceed the assets.

Primogeniture - the right of the eldest son to inherit the entailed real
property, title, etc., of a parent, to the exclusion of other children.

Tenement - anything permanent that may be held as property, whether
substantial or unsubstantial, such as land, rents, franchises, etc., signed
by two parties.

Surveyor's Measure

1 link 7.92 inches
1 chain 100 links or 66 ft.
625 sq. links 1 sq. pole
10 sq. chains 1 acre
640 acres 1 sq. mile or 1 section
35 sq. miles 1 township
1 pole or 1 perch 1 rod or 16 1/2 ft.
1 pace 2 1/2 ft.

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