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Wills/Chancery terminology
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Elizabeth | Report | 18 Apr 2007 11:08 |
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I am transcribing 66 pages of a Chancery case! The main document I'm interested in is in beautiful handwriting, but with lots of abbreviations (e.g. messes for messuages). I've got to grips with all the words except one, which keeps on cropping up. I'm sure I've seen webpages where they give hints on terminology used in old documents. Does anyone know where I can find them? |
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Trudy | Report | 18 Apr 2007 12:08 |
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Elizabeth What's the word you can't fathom - perhaps someone here might be able to help? regards Looby |
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Elizabeth | Report | 18 Apr 2007 12:36 |
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Silly me - should have googled before - I came across and explanation straight away. The owner of fee simple EstateInLand is a Freehold owner: no rent is due to anyone (but see Rentcharge), and no-one has a stronger title to the land (with the notional exception of the Crown). `Absolute' implies that the ownership is exclusive and `in possession' means that the owner has the enjoyment of the property right now, rather than in the future. This is one of the two forms of legal estate established by the LawOfPropertyAct1925, which dissolved all the others. The other form is the leasehold `TermOfYearsAbsolute'. My problem was wondering whether the letter was an 's' or and 'f' as they look so similar in old handwriting! |
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Elizabeth | Report | 18 Apr 2007 12:36 |
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it looks like 'fee' and always appears as 'fee simple'. Is this a term which occurs in these cases? 'That there being no Issue of the Marriage between Complainant and the said Wm Bassett Complt by virtue of his said Will became entitled in Equity to the fee simple and Inheritance of an in the said Messuages Lands and Hereditaments sit. in the County of Glamorgan afsd ....' This is just one passage. Perhaps I shall go off and Google! |
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