ABSTRACT - Summary of important points of a given text, especially deeds
and wills.
ACRE - See measurements.
ADMINISTRATION (of estate) - The collection, management and distribution
of an estate by proper legal process.
ADMINISTRATOR (of estate) - Person appointed to manage or divide the
estate of a deceased person.
ADMINISTRATRIX - A female administrator.
AFFIDAVIT - A statement in writing, sworn to before proper authority.
ALIEN - Foreigner.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION - U.S. war for independence from Great Britain 1775 -
1783.
ANCESTOR - A person from whom you are descended; a forefather.
ANTE - Latin prefix meaning before, such as in ante-bellum South, "The
South before the war"
APPRENTICE - One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement or by
any means to serve another person for a certain time, with a view of
learning an art or trade.
APPURTENANCE - That which belongs to something else such as a building,
orchard, right of way, etc.
ARCHIVES - Records of a government, organization, institution; the place
where records are stored.
ATTEST - To affirm; to certify by signature or oath.
BANNS - Public announcement of intended marriage.
BENEFICIARY - One who receives benefit of trust or property.
BEQUEATH - To give personal property to a person in a will. Noun --
bequest.
BOND - Written, signed, witnessed agreement requiring payment of a
specified amount of money on or before a given date.
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT - A right to obtain land, specific number of acres of
unallocated public land, granted for military service.
CENSUS - Official enumeration, listing or counting of citizens.
CERTIFIED COPY - A copy made and attested to by officers having charge of
the original and authorized to give copies.
CHAIN - See measurements.
CHATTEL - Personal property which can include animate as well as
inanimate properties.
CHRISTEN - To receive or initiate into the visible church by baptism; to
name at baptism; to give a name to.
CIRCA - About, near, or approximate -- usually referring to a date.
CIVIL WAR - War between the States; war between North and South, 1861 -
65.
CODICIL - Addition to a will.
COLLATERAL ANCESTOR - Belong to the same ancestral stock but not in
direct line of descent; opposed to lineal such as aunts, uncles &
cousins.
COMMON ANCESTOR - Ancestor shared by any two people.
CONFEDERATE - Pertaining to the Southern states which seceded from the
U.S. in 1860 - 1, their government and their citizens.
CONSANGUINITY - Blood relationship.
CONSORT - Usually, a wife whose husband is living
CONVEYANCE - See deed.
COUSIN - Relative descended from a common ancestor, but not a brother or
sister.
DAUGHTER-IN-LAW - Wife of one's son.
DECEASED - Dead.
DECEDENT - A deceased person.
DECLARATION OF INTENTION - First paper, sworn to and filed in court, by
an alien stating that he wants to be come a citizen.
DEED - A document by which title in real property is transferred from one
party to another.
DEPOSITION - A testifying or testimony taken down in writing under oath
of affirmation in reply to interrogatories, before a competent officer to
replace to oral testimony of a witness.
DEVISE - Gift of real property by will.
DEVISEE - One to whom real property (land) is given in a will.
DEVISOR - One who gives real property in a will.
DISSENTER - One who did not belong to the established church, especially
the Church of England in the American colonies.
DISTRICT LAND OFFICE PLAT BOOK - Books or rather maps which show the
location of the land patentee.
DISTRICT LAND OFFICE TRACT BOOK - Books which list individual entries by
range and township.
DOUBLE DATING - A system of double dating used in England and America
from 1582-1752 because it was not clear as to whether the year commenced
January 1 or March 25
DOWER - Legal right or share which a wife acquired by marriage in the
real estate of her husband, allotted to her after his death for her
lifetime.
EMIGRANT - One leaving a country and moving to another.
ENUMERATION - Listing or counting , such as a census.
EPITAPH - An inscription on or at a tomb or grave in memory of the one
buried there.
ESCHEAT - The reversion of property to the state when there are no
qualified heirs.
ESTATE - All property and debts belonging to a person.
ET AL - Latin for "and others".
ET UX - Latin for "and wife".
ET UXOR - And his wife. Sometimes written simply Et Ux.
EXECUTOR - One appointed in a will to carry out its provisions. Female =
Executrix
FATHER-IN-LAW - Father of one's spouse.
FEE - An estate of inheritance in land, being either fee simple or fee
tail. An estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the
performing of certain services.
FEE SIMPLE - An absolute ownership without restriction.
FEE TAIL - An estate of inheritance limited to lineal descendant heirs of
a person to whom it was granted.
FRANKLIN, STATE OF - An area once known but never officially recognized
and was under consideration from 1784 - 1788 from the western part of
North Carolina.
FRATERNITY - Group of men (or women) sharing a common purpose or
interest.
FREE HOLD - An estate in fee simple, in fee tail, or for life.
FRIEND - Member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.
FURLONG - See measurements.
GAZETTEER - A geographical dictionary; a book giving names and
descriptions of places usually in alphabetical order.
GENEALOGY - Study of family history and descent.
GENTLEMAN - A man well born.
GIVEN NAME - Name given to a person at birth or baptism, one's first and
middle names.
GLEBE - Land belonging to a parish church.
GRANTEE - One who buys property or receives a grant.
GRANTOR - One who sells property or makes a grant.
GREAT-AUNT - Sister of one's grandparent
GREAT-UNCLE - Brother of one's grandparent.
GUARDIAN - Person appointed to care for and manage property of a minor
orphan or an adult incompetent of managing his own affairs.
HALF BROTHER/HALF SISTER - Child by another marriage of one's mother or
father; the relationship of two people who have only one parent in
common.
HEIRS - Those entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit
property from another.
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL - One written entirely in the testator's own
handwriting.
HOMESTEAD ACT - Law passed by Congress in 1862 allowing a head of a
family to obtain title to 160 acres of public land after clearing and
improving it for 5 years.
HUGUENOT - A French Protestant in the 16th and 17th centuries. One of the
reformed or calvinistic communion who were driven by the thousands into
exile in England, Holland, Germany and America.
ILLEGITIMATE - Born to a mother who was not married to the child's
father.
IMMIGRANT - One moving into a country from another.
INDENTURE - Today it means a contract in 2 or more copies. Originally
made in 2 parts by cutting or tearing a single sheet across the middle in
a jagged line so the two parts may later be matched.
INDENTURED SERVANT - One who bound himself into service of another person
for a specified number of years, often in return for transportation to
this country.
INFANT - Any person not of full age; a minor.
INSTANT - Of or pertaining to the current month. (Abbreviated inst.)
INTESTATE - One who dies without a will or dying without a will.
INVENTORY - An account, catalog or schedule, made by an executor or
administrator of all the goods and chattels and sometimes of the real
estate of a deceased person.
ISSUE - Offspring; children; lineal descendants of a common ancestor.
LATE - Recently deceased.
LEASE - An agreement which creates a landlord - tenant situation.
LEGACY - Property or money left to someone in a will
LEGISLATURE - Lawmaking branch of state or national government; elected
group of lawmakers.
LIEN - A claim against property as security for payment of a debt.
LINEAGE - Ancestry; direct descent from a specific ancestor.
LINEAL - Consisting of or being in as direct line of ancestry or
descendants; descended in a direct line.
LINK - See measurements.
LIS PENDENS - Pending court action; usually applies to land title claims.
LODGE - A chapter or meeting hall of a fraternal organization.
LOYALIST - Tory, an American colonist who supported the British side
during the American Revolution.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mario & Barbara Martinez <mlm(a)mosquitonet.com>
To: CAUSBY-L(a)rootsweb.com <CAUSBY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: FW: KY-F: DISEASE CHART #2
Thank you very much!
Would anyone be interested in Occupations of the same vintage?