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From: Mary Leto Pareja <>
Subject: Genealogy abbreviations
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 09:29:33 -0500


"interalios who knows?"

This is a latin word used as a legal term. It literally means "among
other things." So a lawyer might say "the will provides inter alia that
gradson Hezekia is disowned."

"LL. D. I think it means "lawyer"

Yup. That's pretty much right. Until fairly recently, people received
a LL.D. after law school instead of a J.D. It is a way to distinguish
between lawyers who went to law school and earned a degree and those who
just passed the bar but didn't earn a degree. The next degree up from
LL.D. or J.D. is an LL.M. (Masters of Law).

Mary Leto Pareja

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