Does anyone know what a "base born child" means? thanks -- Mark A. Murphy

Base fee: a conditional or determinable fee, e.g., "Since the property would revert if she died without male natural children , it was a base or conditional fee." From "What Did they Mean By That? A Dictionary of History Terms for Genealogists by Paul Drake, J.D. Heritage Books. Mark Murphy wrote: > Does anyone know what a "base born child" means? > thanks > > -- > Mark A. Murphy > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >