Meaning of T. V. A abbreviation

Question

I'm researching a potential ancestor Peregrine B. Cox from Lenoir County, North Carolina, born around 1765. In the court dockets for March 1832 "Trial docket - March term 1832 - Lenoir County: "Peregrine B. Cox vs. Joshua L. Croom and Jeremiah Hawkins - T. V. A. - GEN'L ISSUE - JUSTIFICATION NOT. LIMIT - VERD'T."

Does anyone have any idea what this means?

Later I read:

THE STATE VS. PEREGRINE B. COX - AB - GUILTY.

What is AB?

Thanks, Robert Cox  

Does anyone know if it is possible to find a longer description of these court cases?

Comments

I'm not a lawyer, so don't know much about their language, and I don't know a whole lot about this kind of stuff anyway, but off the top of my head, my first thought was that TVA stands for Tennessee Valley Authority and AB might be Alabama.  The problem with that thought is that I don't think the TVA had any activity in North Carolina.

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Where did you see these records?  Lenoir is a burned county, few records exist before 1880.

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AB could be assault and battery

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I don't think those terms were used at that time.

Answer 1

Here is a link to the court document:

http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/court/court6.txt

Comments

Lots of abbreviations that "might" fit, but I doubt they do.

Administration Building (AB) might indicate the location they had the trial in.

Administrative Board (AB) could be some indication that this was addressed through some sort of administrative process

Above and Beside (AB) appears to be some vague legal term that I doubt applies, but it was one of the few that appeared to be legally related.

Answer Back (AB) is a military term indicating that you are required to answer back, so unlikely it's what is being used here.

Assembly Bill (AB) is another legal term, but I think it applies to legislation and not to trial cases.

So I'm not convinced it's any of these, but figured I'd throw them out as potentials, even if they're not good ones.

Answer 2

There is also a grantor/grantee index that has ben preserved.

http://smithharper.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ncgranteeindexdobbsjohnstonlenoir.pdf

Comments

Thanks, but the Tennessee Valley Authority was established by Congress in 1933, and these records are from 1832.

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The Time Variance Authority won't be established for awhile yet, so we can't use that one, or perhaps since time is relative... maybe we can? (sorry... couldn't resist)

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The TVA also only covers "portions" of North Carolina and nothing around Lenoir County.