Help and hello, everyone! The perhaps archaic legal term "guardian pendentilitum" has stumped all search engines tried so far. Does anyone know the meaning of this term? It came up in connection with the administration of the will of one of my ancestors. Thank you, Alison Stevens _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

At 17:23 -0500 on 4/11/01, Alison Stevens spoke about [OKGEN ] 1845 legal term: guardian pendentilitum. What thusly: >The perhaps archaic legal term "guardian pendentilitum" has stumped >all search engines tried so far. Does anyone know the meaning of >this term? It came up in connection with the administration of the >will of one of my ancestors. More customarily spelled "guardian pendente lite," the term means a guardian appointed for purposes of and for the duration of a legal proceeding. Today it is sometimes done in divorce proceedings, or when a child is the person who should be a party to litigation otherwise. -- Oliwni, Ted -- mailto:genealogysearch@consultburton.com =========================================================================== http://www.consultburton.com/genealogy.html Working on NY, VT, NH, MA, RI, 1864 and earlier, G-O-U-L-D, W-A-K-E-F-I-E-L-D; on OK, TX, & East, 1910 & earlier: E-L-K-I-N-S, G-W-A-L-T-N-E-Y, G-W-A-R-T-N-E-Y, M-A-N-G-U-M, R-U-S-S-E-L-L, S-T-E-P-H-E-N-S; on Germany: M-A-Y-E-R, K-R-U-E-G-E-R/ K-R-U-G-E-R; on Scotland: I-R-V-I-N-G; and on Cornwall: V-A-Y-R-O. • ===========================================================================