From A TO ZAX - A COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY FOR GENEALOGISTS & HISTORIANS one finds: Ejectment: a suit brought into court by a property owner to recover the use of property for either failing to pay rent or for misusing the property Best regards, Lyn P. Baird [email protected] On Fri, 31 May 2002 23:57:02 EDT [email protected] writes: > Elaine...."in form paupens status" (Latin) means that a poor person > is > relieved of the fees and costs of a legal action because of > inability to pay. > "Ejectmts agt Col. Bland" would be (I suppose) ejectments against > Col. Bland > but until it's seen in context one doesn't know what the > "ejectments" are, > or, for that matter, much of anything about the matter. > > Best, > > Maynard ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.