{"id":1435,"date":"2014-09-27T07:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2014-09-27T07:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:14:24","slug":"some-legalities-you-might-have-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/27\/some-legalities-you-might-have-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Legalities You Might Have Missed–"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the legalities that affect your genealogy research–matters which are taken for granted in documents<\/span> and legal processes–include these:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0Massachusetts<\/strong> Body of Liberties, 1641–“When parents dye intestate, the Eldest sonne shall have a doble portion.”\u00a0 The use of “eldest son” is a legal term<\/strong> and does not<\/strong> mean that there are other sons.\u00a0 In 1660, the law was restated “the Eldest Sonn shall have a double portion” whether the parents dye intestate or not.\u00a0 See Robert Charles Anderson, “Eldest Son,” The American Genealogist<\/strong><\/em> 69 (April 1994): 86 for actual examples in the records themselves.<\/li>\n
  2. In early Connecticut<\/strong>, using the English Common Law, women had no control over their property after they married.\u00a0 The law was changed in 1723–“An Act for preventing the Sales of Real Estates of Heiresses, without their consent…” Women who had inherited property was legally required to acknowledge deeds before a Justice of the Peace.\u00a0 Enforcement of the law was strict.\u00a0 See Marsha Hoffman Rising, “Researching Women in Land Conveyances:\u00a0 Groton CT Deeds, Vol 5, 1743-1760,” The American Genealogist<\/strong><\/em> 69 (Jan 1994): 15-21 for abstracts from 603 deeds.\u00a0 Rising discovered that 70%<\/strong> of the family connections (including names of parents and siblings) known about the women named were found in these deeds only.\u00a0 And 30 women did not have marriages that were recorded either.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All of the American colonial law codes have been reprinted and can be found in research libraries across the country.\u00a0 Look for those that apply to the particular state where your research takes you.\u00a0 You will enjoy reading the early laws.\u00a0 And, your understanding of the records you search will increase immensely.\u00a0 Legal documents assume a knowledge of the law!\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/p>\n

    PS\u00a0 Many genealogy periodicals carry articles, like the two cited above, by savvy genealogists showing the application of the law in the extracts of the documents<\/strong> themselves.\u00a0 Don’t neglect the genealogy periodicals .<\/p>\n

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    Among the legalities that affect your genealogy research–matters which are taken for granted in documents and legal processes–include these: \u00a0Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641–“When parents dye intestate, the Eldest sonne shall have a doble portion.”\u00a0 The use of “eldest son” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37,36,38],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ct-genealogy","tag-legal-terms","tag-ma-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}