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GABEL . A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said ...
GAGE contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his ...
GAGER DEL LEY . Wager of law. (q. v.) ...
GAIN . The word is used as synonymous with profits. (q. ...
GAINAGE old Eng. law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, ...
GALLON measures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred and ...
GALLOWS . An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death. ...
GAME . Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling ...
GAMING . A contract between two or more persons by which ...
GAMING HOUSES crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of pemitting persons to ...
GANANCIAL Spanish law. A term which in Spanish signifies nearly the same ...
GAOL . A prison or building designated by law or used ...
GAOL-DELIVERY Eng. law. To insure the trial, within a certain time, of ...
GAOLER . The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who ...
GARDEN . A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers. ...
GARNISH Eng. law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners ...
GARNISHEE practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, ...
GARNISHMENT . A warning to any one for his appearance, in ...
GAUGER . An officer appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, ...
GAVEL . A tax, imposition or tribute; the same as gabel. ...
GAVELKIND . Given to all the kindred, or the hold or ...
GELD old Eng. law. It signifies a fine or compensation for ...
GEMOTE . An assembly. Wittena gemote, during the time of the Saxons ...
GENDER . That which designates the sexes. 2. As a ...
GENEALOGY . The summary history or table of a house or ...
GENER . A son-in-law. Dig. 50, 16, 156. ...
GENERAL . This word has several meanings, namely: 1. A principal officer, ...
GENERAL ASSEMBLY . This name is given in some of the states ...
GENERAL IMPARLANCE pleading. One granted upon a prayer, in which the defendant reserves ...
GENERAL ISSUE pleading. A plea which traverses or denies at once the whole ...
GENERAL LAND OFFICE . One of the departments of government of the United St ...
GENERAL SHIP . One which is employed by the master or owners, ...
GENERAL SPECIAL IMPARLANCE pleading. One in which the defendant reserves to himself " all ...
GENERAL TRAVERSE pleading. One preceded by a general inducement, and denying, in general ...
GENS . A word used by the Romans to represent race ...
GENTLEMAN . In the English law, according to Sir Edward Coke, ...
GENTLEWOMAN . This word is unknown to the law in the ...
GENUS . It denotes the number of beings, or objects, which ...
GEORGIA . The name of one of the original states of ...
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GERMAN relations, germanus. Whole or entire, as respects genealogy or descent; thus, ...
GERONTOCOMI civil law.. Officers appointed to manage hospitals for poor old persons. ...
GESTATION med. jur. The time during which a female, who has conceived, ...
GIFT conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on ...
GIFT contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily ...
GIFT INTER Vivos. A gift made from one or more persons, without any ...
GIFTOMAN Swedish law. He who has a right to dispose of ...
GILL . A measure of capacity, equal to one-fourth of a ...
GIRANTEM mer. law. An Italian word,, which signifies the drawer. It is ...
GIRTH ., A girth or yard is a measure of length. ...
GIST pleading. Gist of the action is the essential ground or object ...
GIVER contracts. He who makes a gift. (q. v.) By his ...
GIVING IN PAYMENT . This term is used in Louisiana; it signifies that a ...
GIVING TIME contracts. Any agreement by which a creditor gives his debtor a ...
GLADIUS . In our old Latin authors, and in the Norman ...
GLEANING . The act of gathering such grain in a field ...
GLEBE eccl. law. The land which belongs to a church. It ...
GLOSS . Interpretation, comment, explanation, or remark, intended to illustrate the text ...
GLOSSATOR . A commentator or annotator of the Roman law. One ...
GLOUCESTER, STATUTE OF . An English statute, passed 6 Edw. I., A. D., 1278; ...
GO WITHOUT DAY . These words have a technical sense. When a party is ...
GOD . From the Saxon god, good. The source of all ...
GOD AND MY COUNTRY . When a prisoner is arraigned, he is asked, How will ...
GOD B0TE eccl. law. An ecclesiastical or church fine imposed upon an. offender ...
GOING WITNESS . One who is going out of the jurisdiction of ...
GOLD . A metal used in making money, or coin. It ...
GOOD AND LAWFUL MEN probi et legales homines. The law requires that those who serve ...
GOOD BEHAVIOUR . Conduct authorized by law. Surety of good behaviour may be ...
GOOD CONSIDERATION contracts. A good consideration is one which flows from kindred or ...
GOOD WILL . By this term is meant the benefit which arises ...
GOODS property. For some purposes this term includes money, valuable securities, and ...
GOODS SOLD AND DELIVERED . This phrase is frequently used in actions of assumpsit, and ...
GOUT med. jur. contracts. An inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts ...
GOVERNMENT natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised ...
GOVERNOR . The title of the executive magistrate in each state and ...
GRACE . That which a person is not entitled to by ...
GRADUS . This is a Latin word, literally signifying a step; figuratively ...
GRAFFER . This word is a corruption of the French word ...
GRAFT . A figurative term in chancery practice, to designate the right ...
GRAIN weight. The twenty-fourth part of a pennyweight. 2. For ...
GRAIN corn. It signifies wheat, rye, barley, or other corn sown in ...
GRAINAGE Eng. law. The name of an ancient duty collected in London, ...
GRAMME . A French weight. The gramme is the weight of ...
GRAND . An epithet frequently used to denote that the thing. ...
GRAND BILL OF SALE Eng. law. The name of an instrument used for the transfer ...
GRAND COUTUMIER . Two collections of laws bore this title. The one, also ...
GRAND JURY practice. A body of men, consisting of not less than twelve ...
GRANDCHILDREN domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim ...
GRANDFATHER domestic relations. The father of one's father or mother. The father's ...
GRANDMOTHER domestic relations. The mother of one's father or mother. The father's ...
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