Genealogy has a Language of it's Own

I can sit for hours reading centuries old documentation.  Anything from a deed to a will.  I have to be honest; I keep my glossary of genealogy terms close by.  Most terms are relatively easy to understand.  And then there are these:

ANTE - Latin prefix meaning before, such as in ante-bellum South, "The South before the war"
APPURTENANCE - That which belongs to something else such as a building, orchard, right of way, etc.
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT - A right to obtain land, specific number of acres of an allocated public land,     granted for military service. 
CHATTEL - Personal property which can include animate as well as inanimate properties.
COLLATERAL ANCESTOR - Belong to the same ancestral stock but not in direct line of descent; opposed to a lineal such as aunts, uncles and cousins.
CONSANGUINITY - Blood relationship.
DISSENTER - One who did not belong to the established church, especially the Church of England in the American colonies.
DOUBLE DATING - A system of double dating used in England and American from 1582 - 1752 because it was not clear as to whether the year commenced January 1 or March 25.
ESCHEAT - The reversion of property to the state when there are no qualified heirs.
FEE TAIL - An estate of inheritance limited to lineal descendant heirs of a person to whom it was granted.
FRANKLIN, STATE OF - An area once known but never officially recognized and was under consideration from 1784 -1788 from the western part of North Carolina. 
GLEBE - Land belonging to a parish church.
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL - One written entirely in the testator's own handwriting.
HUGUENOT - A French Protestant in the 16th and 17th centuries.  One of the reformed or calvinistic communion who are driven by the thousands into exile in England, Holland, Germany and America.
INDENTURED SERVANT - One who bound himself into service of another person for a specified number of years, often in return to transportation to this country.
LIS PENDENS - Pending court action; usually applies to land title claims.
MESSUAGE - A dwelling house.
METES & BOUNDS - Property described by natural boundaries, such as 3 notches in a white oak tree, etc.
NECROLOGY -Listing or record of persons who have died recently.
PROXIMO - In the following month, in the month after the present one.
YEOMAN - A servant, and attendant or subordinate official in a royal household; a subordinate of a sheriff; an independent farmer.

Of course there are dozens more in my glossary.  I can tell you when my 2nd great grandfather, Henry Hart came here, he was a yeoman, an independent farmer.

So now you are set to begin reading old documents you may come across.  Don't get discouraged.  It's taken hundreds and hundreds of year to make you, well you.  Don't expect to get all the answers at one time.