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Terminology & Definitions

in the Coker DuBose SCRoots email archives.


ABBREVIATIONS
A-B
C-E
F-J
K-N
O-R
S-Z
cc
prox.
RMC
sic
Twp.
ult.
viz.


DEFINITIONS A-M
Administrator, Administration
Base
Bond
Bounty
Cassiques
Capias
Cepi, Cepi corpus
Chancery
Chattels
Child, Children
Chose
Civiliter Mortuus
Claim, Claimant
Common Carriers, Private Carriers
Consort
Conveyance, Conveyancer
County Court
Cousins
Cowpens
Curate, Curator, Curatrix
De Bonis Non
De Bonis Propriis
De Son Tort
Dead
Dead-Born
Dead Letters
Dead Man's Part
Deed, Deed Poll
Deed Poll
Devastavit
Dower, Dowery, Dowager
Estate
Estate Tail
Executor
Fee, Feodum, Feudom
Feoffment
Free
Freehold
Grant
Guardian
Hereditaments
Homage
Husband
Inheritance
Intestate, Intestable
Inventory
Ita Est
Ita Quod
Jactitation of Marriage
Joint Executors
Joint Tenants
Joint Trustees
Jointress
Jointure
Judicial Sale
Junior
Jurat
Juror
Jus In Re
Jus Relicta
Justice of the Peace
Landgraves
Let, To Let
Letter
Letter of Credit
Letters of Administration
Letters Patent, Letters Close
Livery, Livery of Seisin
Lymphatic

DEFINITIONS N-Z
Magister
Magistrate
Mainour
Maintenance
Major
Majores
Malediction
Man
Manhood
Manor
Mansion
Manumission
Marauder
Marches
Maretum
Marital
Marinarius
Maritagium
Marital Portion
Maritime Loan
Mark
Marque and Reprisal
Marriage
Marriage Settlement
Master
Master of the Rolls
Master at Common Law
Master in Chancery
Mater Familias
Material Men
Materna Maternis
Matertera
Matricula
Maternal
Matrimonium
Matron
Matrina
Matrimonial Causes
May
Melungeon
Memorial
Mese, Mesne
Name
Natural Children
Necessaries
Ordinary
Orator
Partition
Paternal
Patrimony, Patrimonium
Patruus
Peculiar
Peculium
Pedigree
Per Capita, Capite
Per Quod
Per Stirpes
Perfidy
Poll, Deed Poll
Primogeniture
Protutor
Promulgation, Publication
Property
Proximo
Quit Claim
Register, Registrar
Relict
Rent
Seal
Seisin
Ship's Husband
Slave
Socage
Tenant, Veray Tenant
Testament, Testes
Testatum
Tithes
Toll
Ultimo
Usufruct
Vassal
Vill, Villein, Villain
Water Course
Way, Via
White Rent
Widow, Widower
Wife
Yard, Yardland
Year Books
Yeoman
FRENCH-ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
French-English
French Language (ARTFL)
Microglossaries

LAW DICTIONARIES
Bankruptcy
Bouvier's Law Dictionary
Lectric Law
Maritime Law
WWLIA Law Dictionary

MEDICAL DICTIONARIES
Medical Dictionaries
Medical Dictionary
Medical Terms

OTHER DICTIONARIES, ETC.
Acronym Dictionary
Bartlett's Quotations
Bibles
Cell Biology
Climbing Dictionary
Dictionaries Online
Dictionary Categories
Dictionary.com
Latin
FOLDOC London Master
FOLDOC Princeton Mirror
Hacker's Jargon
Hypertext Webster
Library Terms
Library Terms
Linguist List
Military Dictionary
Middle English
Middle English Dictionary
NASA Thesaurus
Occupations
Pedro's Dictionaries
Political Dictionary
Railroads
Real Estate
Roget's Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus 1911
Sailing
Verb Conjugation
Webster's Unabridged 1913
Word of the Day
WWWebster

ENCYCLOPEDIA, ETC.
Britannica Online
CIA World Factbook
Smithsonian Encyclopedia


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