Category: G

Fetters or shackles for the legs

wandering monks

r GYNSGOORAGY. Gov-ernment by a woman; a state in whlch women are legally capable of the supreme command; e. g., ln Great Brltaln and Spain

Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell

The name of a court which was held every three weeks ln the llberty or hundred of Pathbew ln warwlck. Jacob

walf, or walved; that whlch has been stolen and afterwards dropped ln the hlghway for fear of a dlscovery. Cowell

A place of execution. Jacob

The dlmlnudve of a sewer. Callis, Sew. (80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or conduit designed to allow the passage of water from one point to another ln a certaln dlrectlon, whether for purposes of dralnage, lrrlgatlon, or otherwise, war-ren v. Henly, 31 Iowa, 31; willis v. State, 27 Neb. 98, 42 N. […]

Jutes; one of the three natlons who migrated from Germany to Britain at an early perlod. According to Spelman, they established themselves chlefly ln Kent and the Isle of wight

wears. Jacob

The first of August, being the day of St. Peter ad Vincula

Havlng committed a crime or tort; the word used by a prisoner In plead-lng to an indictment when he confesses the crime of which he is charged, and by the jury in convicting. Com. v. waiter, 83 Pa. 108, 24 Am. Rep. 154; Jessie v. State, 28 Miss. 106; State ?. white, 25 wis. 359

In criminal law. That quality whlch imparts criminality to a motive or act, and renders the person amenable to punislj,-ment by the law

An instrument for decap-itation, used in France for the infliction of the death penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weight-ed knife-blade moving perpendicularly be-tween grooved posts, which ls made to fall from a considerable height upon the neck of the sufferer, immovably fixed ln position to receive the impact

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild

The name of a treatise on maritime law, by an unknown author, supposed to have been written about 1671 at Rouen, and considered, in continental Europe, as a work of high authority

An iron or steel plate to he attached to a rail for the pnrpose ot guldlng to their place on the rail wheels thrown ofT the track. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1291

In Spanish law. A right of way for narrow carts, white, New Recop. L 2, c. 6, | 1

In old French law. watch, ord. Mar. liv. 4, tlt 6

An agister; one who took cattle in to feed in the royal forests. CowelL

In military law. An independent body of marauders or armed men, not regularly or organically connected with the armies’of either belligerent, who carry on a species of irregular war, chlefly by depredation and massacre

L. Fr. Abaudon-ed; left; deserted. Britt c. 33

one who had the custody of the royal mansions

In old European law. A provlslon of necessary things. Spel-man. A furnishing or garnishment

A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman

The office, duty, or authority of a guardian. Also the relation subsisting between guardian and ward

A guardian is a person lawfully invested with the power, and char-ged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing the property and rights of another person, who, for some pe-culiarlty of status, or defect of age, under-standing, or self-control, is considered in-capable of administering his own affairs. Bass v. Cook, 4 […]

A state of wardship

He who makes a guaranty

In Spanish law. A wrltten authorization to a court to enforce the performance of an agreement in the same manner as if lt had been decreed upon regular legal proceedings

In mining law. A con-tract between two parties by which one un-dertakes to furnish the necessary provisions, tools, and other supplies, and the other to prospect for and locate mineral lands and stake out mining claims thereon, the lnterest ln the property thus acquired inuring to the benefit of both parties, either equally or in […]

A rate paid ln some places for the tithe of every fat beast, ox, or other unfruitful cattle. Clayt 92

A crop must be considered and treated as a growing crop from the time the seed Is deposited in the ground, as at that time the seed loses the qualities of a chattel, and becomes a part of the free

A custom or tribute paid for the standing of shipping in port. Jacob

In old English law. A flne, or sum of money paid for a lease. Plowd. 270, 271. Supposed to be a corrup-tion of gersuma, (q. v.) See Gbessume

Timber. Cowell

L. Fr. Largely, great-ly. (Jrossemcnt enseint, big with chlld. Plowd. 76

Great; culpable. General. Ab-solute or entire. A thlng in gross exists in its own right, and not as an appendage to another thing

Fr. In Freuch marine law. The contract of bottomry. Drd, Mar. llv. 3, tlt 5

In old records. A deep hoI-low or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell

Formerly an officer belonging to the royal household. Jacoh

In old English law. A mer-chant or trader who engrossed all vendible merchandise; an engrosser. St. 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See Exgbosseb

A liqnor saloon, bar-room, or dram-shop; a place where intoxi-cating liquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. E. 602

An English sllver coin (value four pence) Issued from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. See Reg. v. Con-nell, 1 Car. & K. 191

In Saxon law. Peace; protection

In old records. The sea shore, sand, or heach. 2 Mon. Angl. 625; Cowell

Aggrieved. 3 East, 22

In Engllsh law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant on

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Lat The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. In English law, an estate which ls in abey-ance ls said to be in gremio legis; that is, in the protection or keeping of the law