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Search Results for "G"
GABEL
A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same
signification that gabelle formerly had in France. Cunn. Dict. h. t. But
this... more
GAGE
contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of
his creditor, as a security for his debt, a pawn. (q. v.) Hence mortgage is
a dead... more
GAGER DEL LEY
Wager of law. (q. v.)
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GAIN
The word is used as synonymous with profits. (q. v.) See Fruit.
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GAINAGE
old Eng. law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain,
plough,
and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of soke
men and... more
GALLON
measures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred
and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts.
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GALLOWS
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death.
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GAME
Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and
hunting.
Bac. Ab. h. t., Animals, Ferae natural.
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GAMING
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to
play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one
shall... more
GAMING HOUSES
crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of pemitting
persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in
the eye of the law,... more
GANANCIAL
Spanish law. A term which in Spanish signifies nearly the same
as acquets. Bienes gananciales are thus defined: " Aquellos que el marido y
la muger o... more
GAOL
A prison or building designated by law or used by the
sheriff, for
the confinement or detention of those, whose persons are judicially ordered
to be kept... more
GAOL-DELIVERY
Eng. law. To insure the trial, within a certain time, of
all prisoners, a patent in the nature of a letter is issued from the king
to... more
GAOLER
The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal
custody of
the placo where prisoners are kept.
2. It is his duty... more
GARDEN
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
2. A garden is a parcel of a house and passes with it.... more
GARNISH
Eng. law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners on
his entrance into prison. .
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TO GARNSIH
To warn, to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir.
Obsolete.
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GARNISHEE
practice. A person who has money or property in his
possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been
attached in his hands, and he... more
GARNISHMENT
A warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause
in which
he is not a party, for the information of the court, and explaining... more
GAUGER
An officer appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads,
barrels, and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a
mark of allowance,... more
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