YEOMA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  YEOMAN. In the United States this word does not appear to have any very 
  exact meaning. It is usually put as an addition to the names of parties in 
  declarations and indictments. In England it signifies a free man who has 
  land of the value of forty shillings a year. 2 Inst. 668; 2 Dall. 92.