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Subject: Terminology
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:46:19 -0400 (EDT)

Thought this might come in handy for all of us. You will see that I am not a
bystander when it comes to lists. I try and provide information that you can
use in your searches.

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 area 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 - a 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 along 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.
635 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 1 1/2
ft.

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