Poldi
Paul actually has published two books but they are entitled "What did they
mean by that" and the second book is a follow-on.  These are many terms that
were used and are no longer familiar to most of us.
For Legal Terms Barbara V-L has given us one reference site but if you go to
Google Books and put in Black's Law Dictionary you will come up with a
number of them that you can download free. You don't want anything newer
than about the 4th edition--Black's is still being published and the last
one I saw was the 9th.  I also purchased a paper copy--4th edition--at a
very reasonable  price.

Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Poldi Tonin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Nell:
>  Paul Drake published a book of legal terms used in documents. I haven't a
> copy in my library but do want to purchase a copy.
>
> Paul if you are out there and reading this please do contact me directly
> regarding the availability of your book.
>
> Poldi
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:56 PM, nelhatch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com
> > HALL DNA project:
> > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm<http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Enhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm>
> <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Enhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm>
> > "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a
> > brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld
> >
> > I have the following record that I'm not sure I understand......
> >
> > Goochland County, Virginia
> > Court Order Book 1730-1731
> > December Court 1730
> >
> > Hatcher vs. Symes
> > In the Action of Trespass on the Case between Henry Hatcher Assignee of
> > Samuell Hatcher Plt. and Richard Syms Defendt. the sheriff having made
> > return on the Alias Capias that the Deft. is not to be found and he
> failing
> > to appear on the Plts. motion a Plurias Capias is awarded against the
> Deft.
> > returnable to the next Court.
> >
> > My understanding is that an "assignee" has had certain "rights"
> transferred
> > to him, usually involving some sort of property. But in a "trespass"
> case,
> > that definition doesn't seem to make sense.
> >
> > So....why would Henry Hatcher be the "assignee" of Samuel Hatcher and
> what
> > exactly was "assigned" to him?
> >
> > One thought I had is that Henry lived in Goochland where the trespass
> > occurred but Samuel, the owner of the land trespassed upon, did not. So
> > Samuel "assigned" Henry to represent him in the Goochland court.
> >
> > Is this a possibility and are there other reasons to explain this
> > assignment?
> >
> > Thanks for any and all input!
> >
> > Nel Hatcher
> >
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>
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>
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> Hercule Poirot
>
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>
> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Langford
> This project includes Lankford spelling also.
>
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> for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical."
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FL

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