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Obeying the rule

… the one against perpetuities So… the eagle-eyed genealogists out there surely noticed that quirk in the legal story. The one about the dust-up between the Disney Corporation and the State of Florida. Where Disney did an end-run around a new governing...

The price of imprecision

The language of the law You have to love the way the law works. Okay, okay, so if you’re The Legal Genealogist, you’re gonna love it no matter what — but c’mon, now. Any genealogist has to love the records that get created because of the law....

Bailing out

…of a different stripe… The case was heard in the December 1800 term of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania — and it’s exactly the kind of thing a genealogist hopes to find. George Keppele and Henry Zantzinger had been business partners in...

Silly suit season

Ancestry sued again The Legal Genealogist is going to go out on a limb here and declare that it must officially be silly suit season. Because a lawsuit just filed against Ancestry is really really really silly. Just filed in federal court in southern Illinois, the...