Graded A+
Matrilocal Residence pattern of residence in which a married couple lives with or near
the wife parents.
Annuity a yearly payment of a fixed amount given as right for life.
Crown the Government of Britain, Canada, or a province of Canada.
Fee simple a freehold estate of virtually unlimited duration, over which one has
unrestricted power of disposition during one's lifetime, and which descends to one's heirs upon
one's death.
Obiter Dictum Latin, "saying by the way." A legal term referring to an observation by a
judge on a legal matter which is not binding as a precedent.
Treaty in international law, an agreement between two sovereign nations or states; when
applied to individuals, the discussion of terms that precedes agreement on a contract.
, Usufructuary rights the right to enjoy or use the fruits of things belonging to others,
without destroying or wasting the others' things or property.
Miscegenation Latin miscere, to mix, and genus, kind or race) marriage or sexual
relations between a man and a woman of different races.
matriorganization the organization of a society based on a matrilocal structure, where the
husband takes up residence with his wife's relations.
Mestizo person of mixed parentage.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples a Canadian government comission
investigating the tension between Canada's First Nations and the government in the 1990s that
concluded Aboriginals needed to be granted more self-determination and control over their lands
and brought into focus what Aboriginal people were thinking and reflects their current view of
how they should fit into Canadian society..
Structural Racism A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural
representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial
group inequity