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From: "Steven J. Coker" <>
Subject: YEOMAN
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 23:11:59 -0400

Extracted From:
A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
by John Bouvier
CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

YEOMAN. In the United States this word does not appear to have any very exact
meaning. It is usually put as an addition to the names of parties in
declarations and indictments. In England it signifies a free man who has land of
the value of forty shillings a year....

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