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'''Echeats''' Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.
 
'''Echeats''' Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.
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'''Emancipated''' freed from slavery; freed from parents' control; of legal age.
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'''Emigrant''' person leaving one country to reside in another country.
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'''Emigration''' emigration is when an individual leaves their home country to live in another country.
  
 
'''Enfeoffed''' to invest with a Feudal estate or fee.
 
'''Enfeoffed''' to invest with a Feudal estate or fee.
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'''Entail''' to entail is to restrict the inheritance of land to a specific group of heirs, such as an individual's sons.
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'''Enumeration''' list of people, as in a census.
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'''Enumerator''' person who collects the list for census purposes
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'''Estate assets''' and liabilities of a decedent, including land, personal belongings and debts.
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'''et al''' ...and others
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'''Et ux''' ....and wife
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'''Evidence''' any kind of proof
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'''Exec/exor.'''(abbreviation) executor. Meaning male appointed by a testator to carry
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out the directions and requests in his or her will
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'''exox.''' (abbreviation) executrix.
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'''executrix''' Meaning female appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his or her will. As above
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'''Echeats''' Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.
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Echeats Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.

Emancipated freed from slavery; freed from parents' control; of legal age.

Emigrant person leaving one country to reside in another country.

Emigration emigration is when an individual leaves their home country to live in another country.

Enfeoffed to invest with a Feudal estate or fee.

Entail to entail is to restrict the inheritance of land to a specific group of heirs, such as an individual's sons.

Enumeration list of people, as in a census.

Enumerator person who collects the list for census purposes

Estate assets and liabilities of a decedent, including land, personal belongings and debts.

et al ...and others

Et ux ....and wife

Evidence any kind of proof

Exec/exor.(abbreviation) executor. Meaning male appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his or her will

exox. (abbreviation) executrix.

executrix Meaning female appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his or her will. As above

Echeats Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.






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