Re: consensus KRS 23rd October

JerryT wrote:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unglued) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Seppo Renfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > <snip>
> > > The hell it was. See URL to Mora Tidning. People do NOT have farm
> > > names included in their personal names.
> >
> > Or maybe it was Annika ...
> >

A comedy program on TV doesn't qualify as a reference for anything,
other than jokes.

> 
> Det finns 26 män som har förnamnet Annika. Av dessa har 5 namnet
> Annika som tilltalsnamn/förstanamn
> 
> Namnlagen (1982:670) angående förnamnsändring
> 
> §35Den som invid ett förnamn vill bära ett gårdsnamn, som han eller
> hon har anknytning till genom släktskap eller äktenskap och som enligt
> gammal sedvänja är i bruk som tillnamn, kan anmäla gårdsnamnet till
> skattemyndigheten. Vill han eller hon inte längre använda gårdsnamnet,
> kan anmälan härom göras till pastorsämbetet. Lag (1991:493).

Now this is interesting. This is a law on name changing - and it does
make a reference to "gammal sedvänja" = "old custom" and "till namn" =
"additional name" - but rather than translate the whole... It is a LAW
about name changing an the LEGALITY of the name change. The old custom
of adding a "farm name" (in SOME places at SOME time by SOME people)
is LEGAL enough to submit to to the tax department as a person's name.

Now, this means that it need NOT have any connection to any farm at
all in fact. That it once had, among the ancestors, that the name had
somehow "stuck" to a person for that reason, is enough. It also says
if that portion of the name is no longer desired, a notification of
deleting the use of that name is to be made to the Church District the
person is in (The church holds records like that in Sweden).

What all this means is that the name is the PERSON's name - and does
not identify a farm (that can have a different name). Of course Jerry
might be able to show a Law where a name for a farm is sacrosanct and
cannot be altered, but I suspect it is most unlikely.

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