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Here's a new one for me:

Excepting therefrom, the Oak Trees now standing on the land above described, as reserved by (some bank), in the deed recorded June 11, 1898, in ... of deeds...

Well, the price of oak firewood keeps going up. :)

The Oaks could have been shade for the Bazaar ...

Bizarre ...

:-)

Thanks Warren. That didn't look right to me and now I know why.

Gladding-McBean in Lincoln purchased and burned up a lot of Oak trees. They are a vitrified clay plant.

I learned this in a RE class I took around 2006. Sales of agricultural lands can exclude the next harvest - fruit, crops, etc.

Perhaps the seller was planning on cutting down the oaks as timber?

As I understand it, crops in the field and harvested timber aren't considered part of the land but growing timber is. Maybe the owner just had a sentimental attachment to the trees and didn't want to see them cut down.

The reservation was to a bank, so it was probably some kind of commodity they were going to cut and sell. Maybe part of the deal that was made back then to pay off a loan or something.

may also have to do with a condition for Oak Tree mitigation.

I would be surprised if mitigation was the reason in 1898.

Since it was to the bank it was probably part of the collateral the bank took for the loan to buy the property... just thinking out loud.

I took it as a reference to a prior deed in 1898, describing the current lands, subject to. I can see 2 or 3 interpretations based on the info given.