• Gazetteer - a geographical dictionary; a book giving names and descriptions of places usually in alphabetical order.

• Gentleman - a man well born.

• Given Name - name given to a person at birth or baptism, one's first and middle names.

• Glebe - land belonging to a parish church.

• Grantee - one who buys property or receives a grant.

• Grantor - one who sells property or makes a grant.

• Guardian - person appointed to care for and manage property of a minor orphan or an adult incompetent of managing his own affairs.

• Heirs - those entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit property from another.

• Holographic Will - one written entirely in the testator's own handwriting.

• Illegitimate - born to a mother who was not married to the child's father.

• Immigrant - one moving into a country from another.

• Indentured Servant - one who bound himself into service of another person for a specified number of years, often in return for transportation to a country.

• Instant - of or pertaining to the current month; abbreviated inst.

• Intestate - one who dies without a will or dying without a will.

• Inventory - an account, catalog or schedule, made by an executor or administrator of all the goods and chattels and sometimes of the real estate of a deceased person.

• Issue - offspring; children; lineal descendants of a common ancestor.

• Late - recently deceased.

• Lease - an agreement which creates a landlord - tenant situation.

• Legacy - property or money left to someone in a will.

• Lien - a claim against property as security for payment of a debt.

• Lineage - ancestry; direct descent from a specific ancestor.

• Lineal - consisting of or being in a direct line of ancestry or descendants; descended in a direct line.

• Lis Pendens - pending court action; usually applies to land title claims.

• Lodge - a chapter or meeting hall of a fraternal organization.

Source: Provided by Dan Burrows.

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