My friends - Today, we will close out the week's data postings with a continuation of the series on legal terms in use in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this segment, we will look at some of the terms which begin with the letter "O". Some of these terms may be ones that you will never see - much depends on the state in which you are searching and on the time frame. The more arcane terms generally are those that are seen in the 18th century. Nevertheless, it is good to have an overall knowledge of these terms - we never know when we might run upon them. We have 8 new subscribers who have joined us in the past 72 hours, which brings our current subscribership to 599 - we are about to hit the 600 mark. I want to welcome the new subscribers, and invite them to post their research needs for the 8 counties of the Jackson Purchase region here to the List, so that we can try to be of assistance in their quest for their roots. The Jackson Purchase Images web site is available, as well, as is the JP FAQ site(the URL's are in the Welcome Message that you received). The searchable JP Archives, which contains the 3000+ messages which have been posted here over the past 26 months, as well as my 400 data posts, can be accessed here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=KYJacksonPurchase-L Again, welcome. As is customary, there will be no data posts per se over the weekend, but I hope to return with a land grants file, and I am hoping to finish transcribing the narrative of the slave, to which I have referred earlier. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 18th & 19th Century Legal Terminology - Cont. OB = Order Book obyt. = died obiter dicta = last words occupant = prostitute octoroon = a person one-eighth black, born of a quadroon and a white parent odame = brother-in-law office/projection survey = land grants issued without a formal survey were sometimes said to have "office" or "projection" surveys oir masle = a very old term meaning "male heir" olographic will = synonymous with "holographic will" onstead = sometimes seen in early colonial documents - a "single homestead" origo famaliaris = sometimes seen in later deeds which are attempting to prove a chain of title from an original entail - it means a "family genealogy" O.S.P. = Having died without ossie (obit sine parole) out-cry = an auction out-crier = an auctioner overland farm = a parcel of land without a building upon it Overseer of the Road - appointed by a county governing body to oversee and maintain a stretch of road - he would be assisted in the work by those who lived along the road. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++