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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [OEL] Franck Tenement
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:26:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <12792622634.20031016023753@yahoo.co.uk>



>
>Also there are mentions of a moiety or one half share... does
>moiety mean a half share? I've seen it elsewhere
a moiety (medietas) is strictly a precise half, where, for instance, a
house and bit of land is divided between two brothers. However, it is
sometimes loosely used for a part - if the brothers subdivide against
between two sons each, you can get a quarter moiety, which is wrong but
understandable

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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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