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Re: Deed Terms
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Charlie Weaver <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:05:58 -0500
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Thanks very much Randy. That will be a big help.   C


On 11/14/2011 3:19 PM, Randy Jones wrote:
> You can find a handy dictionary of genealogy&  archaic terms I've put together at:
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~randyj2222/gendict.html
>   
> Feoffment is included.
>   
>    -- Randy Jones 
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Charlie Weaver<[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 9:10 AM
> Subject: Deed Terms
>
> Below is an abstracted entry from the Caroline Co VA
> Order Books.
> "Court of 10 Oct 1740:  William Robards and Mary his wife
> acknowledge their deed of feoffment with liv[very and] seizin
> endorsed and receipt to John Adam Linck."
>
> I can't seem to find any definition of the term "feoffment".
> "[F]Seossment" is not familiar to me either.
> Charlie
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