Weights 1 Pfund = 467.59 grams = 0.97 pounds Coinage 1 Gulden (fl.) = 60 Kreutzer (kr., x) 1 Pfennig = 2 heller (h.) 1 Pfund pfennig = 43 Kreutzer xiv Glossary German words are italicized when they occur for the first time in the volume and italicized in block quotations (or put into roman type in italicized passages) when attention is focused on their use. Abrede agreement, arrangement Acker arable Actuar accountant, clerk allatum endowment, personal possessions Allmendeteil commonland portion Amt bureau Amtmann officer, official, administrator Amtschreiber district clerk Amtstadt district capital Arbeitslohn wage, fee for services Ausding retirement annuity Ausloser one who redeems property Bauer agricultural producer, peasant, local inhabitant with sufficient land and equipment to be obligated to certain types of corvee labor Bauerlohn fee or wage for plowing or harrowing Bauernbefreiung peasant enfranchisement, emancipation Bauerngeschirr agricultural apparatus, gear Baumwiese orchard-meadow Befehlbuch copybook of mandates, edicts, and orders Beibringen marriage portion, endowment Beisitzer legal inhabitant of a locality without citizenship rights; can enjoy only "water and air" free Biirger enfranchised member of a locality, citizen Biirgerausschufi committee representing inhabitants of a locality Biirgermeister chief financial officer of a locality Biirgerrecht citizenship, full rights in a locality Biirgerschaft citizens of a locality Biirgschaft pledge, bond, surety conferieren to return a marriage endowment to an estate xvi Glossary Dekan deacon, ecclesiastical district administrator, superintendent Dorfschiitz bailiff, peace officer of a village Dote godmother (relation to child) Dote godfather (relation to child) Dotle godchild Ehegericht marriage court Ehepact marriage contract Ehepredecessor marital predecessor (spouse's previous spouse) Ehesuccessor marital successor (spouse's subsequent spouse) Ehevogt marital guardian, overseer, governor (office held by husband) Eigentum personal or owned property, possessions Einbringen marriage portion, endowment EinbuB loss Errungenschaft acquisitions Errungenschaftsgesellschaft community of acquisitions Fahrnis movables Feld furlong, partition in a field (Zelg) Flachsland strip devoted to cultivation of flax Freieigenes freehold Fuhrgeschirr wagon apparatus, gear Fuhrlohn freight charge, fee or wage for carrying services Gemeindepfleger village financial officer Gemeinderat local council Gericht court Gerichtsbuch volume of court minutes Gerichtsverwandte justices of the court Geschlechtsvormundschaft gender tutelage Gevatter(in) godfather (mother) (relation to parents) Gleichstellung equalization; establishing heirs on an equal footing Giilt rent paid in kind Giiltlosung redemption of land sold outside a rental unit Giiteriibergabe property devolution Giiterbuch cadaster, register of real property Hanfland strip devoted to cultivation of hemp Hauptrecht death duty, laudemium Haus house Hausbuch household ledger hausen live together, be married, get along, do ...