This is from the Introduction of Langley's, South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719-1772.
Conveyances during the Royal period usually took the form of a "lease and release." Under English law, for an unrestricted conveyance to be made, a buyer had to have possession of a piece of land as a lessor. A separate "lease" for a nominal amount gave him tenancy rights for up to a year. He became eligible to claim possession one day following execution of the lease and thus became entitled to obtain a "release" that gave him absolute and unqualified ownership. These "L. & R." documents contain essentially the same information, and each set was accordingly abstracted as though it were a single record.

Joy


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: nelhatch 
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  Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:15 PM
  Subject: Need an interpretation, please.....


  I have the following two records for the same individual and am not at all
  sure what is happening here. I "think" the land is being leased for a year
  while the landowner continues to reside in his home on that land. I am
  simply BURIED in the repetitive verbosity....if this guy was paid by the
  word, he was a very rich man :-)

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