Re: When does "late" mean "Dead"?


> I have the following passage in a deed which is giving me grief.
>
> "... where John Jones late of Mumble county deceased lived for many
> years ..."
>
>
> There are two possible meanings there,
>
> 1. Late...deceased is a redundancy. Or an elaborate way of saying
> "he lived here until he died, but he doesn't live here now because
> he doesn't live now."
>
> 2. Late modified the county of resident, not John Jones. As in, he
> used to live in Texas but he moved to Oklahoma before he died.
>
>
> Can anyone speak *Definitively* on the legal terminology of the late
> 1700s?
>
> Cheryl Singhals <singhals@xxxxxxxxx>


Version #2 is the most likely scenario. The use of "late" in such
cases usually means the deceased "used to live" in county XXXX.
Such as:

"... where John Jones, late of Mumble county, deceased, lived
for many years ..."

or

"... where John Jones, [the] deceased, late of Mumble county,
lived for many years ..."

In essence, Mr Jones used to live in Mumble County, but was living
in XXX before he died.

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