Subject: JUNIOR
Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:06:05 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:04:38 -0500
From: "Steven J. Coker" 
Reply-To: carolina@yours.com
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To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com

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

JUNIOR. Younger.

  This has been held to be no part of a man's name, but an addition by use, and
a convenient distinction between a father and son of the same name.

  Any matter that distinguishes persons renders the addition of junior or senior
unnecessary.... But if father and son have both the same name, the father shall
be, prima facie, intended, if junior be not added, or some other matter of
distinction.... If father and son have the same name and addition, and the
former sue the latter, the writ is abateable unless the son have the further
addition of junior, or the younger. But if the father be the defendant and the
son the plaintiff, there is no need of the further addition of senior, or the
elder, to the name of the father....

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