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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.) ... more GAIN The word is used as synonymous with profits. (q. v.) See Fruit. ... more 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. ... more GALLOWS An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death. ... more GAME Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bac. Ab. h. t., Animals, Ferae natural. ... more 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. . ... more TO GARNSIH To warn, to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir. Obsolete. ... more 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 |