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Historic Terms Used in the Irish Registry of Deeds (Part 1)

14 May By Dwight Leave a Comment

I am offering a two part dictionary to assist you in understanding what you are seeing. There are certainly terms I have not listed, but I’ve tried to define the major ones.

Abut(ment): Land boundaries where the shorter sides are adjacent plots and the longer sides lie between them, such as in town lots.

Borough: A town granted Corporation status through a royal charter.

Conveyances: The transfer to another of the right, interest or title to a particular piece of property.

Demise: The transfer of an estate by lease or on the death of the owner.

Dower: The life interest of a wife in one-third of the lands which her husband possessed.

Exchange: A deed of exchange is a reciprocal conveyance of property by two parties.

Fee Simple: A freehold or estate of inheritance.

Freehold: A form of tenure in which land is held in fee simple, fee tail or for a term of life.

Grantee: A buyer in a transaction.

Grantor: A seller in a transaction.

Hereditaments: Property that can be inherited.

Indenture: A deed to which there are two or more parties.

Lease: Leases were for fixed period of time or for a period of the lives of persons alive at the time.

Lease and Release: It can refer to deeds of sales, conveyances, rent charges, actual leases, mortgages, and even marriage settlements.

Lives: Leases were often given for the term of three lives, until the last of three people named died.

Tomorrow I will continue this list of legal terms in a Part 2 dictionary.

Filed Under: Irish Ancestry Tagged With: Dictionaries, Glossary, Irish Records, Land Records, Terminology

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Dwight A. Radford

Dwight A. Radford is a professional family history researcher. Along with his staff they specialize in Ireland, England, Canada, African American, Native American, and United States. Connecting families together through historical documents and then creating a cherished family heirloom published book for generations to enjoy. Full bio…

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