Category: G

In old English law. Finable; liable to be amerced at the discre-tion of the lord of a manor. Cowell

In the civil law. offl-cers appointed to manage hospitals for the aged poor

In the civil law. An institution or hospital for taking care of the old. Cod. 1, 3, 46, 1; Calvin

Lat. A sprout of the earth. A young tree, so called

Lat. Descended of the same stock, or from the same couple of an-cestors; of the whole or full blood. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 145

In the civil law. A general class or dlvision, comprising several species. In toto jure generi per speciem derogatnr, et illud potisaimum habetur quod ad speciem directum eat, throughout the law, the species takes from the genus, and that is most par-ticularly regarded which refers to the species. Dig. 50, 17, 80

An English gold coin, valne 6s. 8d

See Hindu Law

As applied to notes, bonds, and other .written Instruments, this term means that they are truly what they pur-port to be, and that they are not false, forged, fictitious, simulated, spurious, or counterfeit. Baldwin v. Van Deusen, 37 N. Y. 492; Smelt-zer v. white, 92 U. 8. 392, 23 L. Ed. 508; Dow v. Spenny, […]

In English law. A person of superior birth

A woman of birth above the common, or equal to that of a gen-tleman; an addition of a woman’s state or degree

Lat. In Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by com-mon descent and bearing the same name, be-ing all free-born and of free ancestors, and in possession of full civic rights

Lat People. Contra omnes gentes, against all people. Bract, fol. 37b. words used In the clause of warranty in old deeds

In Roman law. The members of a gens or common tribe

A degree of consanguin-ity. Spelman

May mean either a de-gree of removal in computing descents, or a single succession of living beings ln natural descent McMillan v. School Committee, 107 N. C. 609, 12 S. E. 330, 10 L. R. A. 823

Lat Gentleman; a gentleman. Spelman

Chiefs of the several orders of monks, friars, and other religious societies

The lssue or offspring of a mother-monastery. Cowell

Pertaining to, or designat-ing, the genus or class, as distinguished from that which characterizes the species or indi-vidual. Universal, not particularized; as op-posed to special. Principal or central; as opposed to local, open or available to all, as opposed to select, obtaining commonly, or recognized universally; as opposed to par-ticular. Universal or unbounded; as oppos-ed […]

The usual commons ln a religious house, distinguished from pietan-tin, which on extraordinary occasions were allowed beyond the commons. Cowell

The head of a family

In Saxon law. A villein, or agricultural tenant, (villanus villicus;) a hind or farmer, (flrmarius rusticus.) Spelman

Lat. In the civll law. A gem; a precious stone. Gems were distin-guished by their transparency; such as ein-eralds, chrysolites, amethysts. Dig. 34, 2, 19, 17

In Saxon law. A meeting or moot; a convention; a public assemblage. These were of several sorts, such, as the witena-gemot, or meeting of the wise men; the folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people; the shire-gemot, or county court; the burg-gemot, or borough court; the hundred-gemot, or hundred court; the hali-gemot, or court-baron; the […]

Liable to pay geld; liable to be taxed. Kelham

A horse that has been cas-trated, and which is thus distinguished from the horse ln hls natural and unaltered con

In old English law. Tax-able ; geldable

In old English law. A country neighbor; an inhabitant of the same geb-urscript, or village. Cowell

In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer boc land, (book-land or land held by charter.) The grantor was said to gebo-cjan the alienee. See 1 Reeve. Eng. Law, 10

In old English law. Neighborhood or adjoining district. CowelL

A species of socage ten-ure common ln Kent, In England, where the lands desceud to all the sons, or heirs of the nearest degree, together; may be disposed of by will; do not escheat for felony; may be aliened by the heir at the age of fifteen; and dower and curtesy is given of half […]

ln English law. Custom; tribute ; toll; yearly rent; paymeut of revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-garcl, garel-fodder, etc. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 142a

An ancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent, obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. II. 2 Reeve, Eng. I4tw, c. 12, p. 298. See Emig v. Cunningham, 62 Md. 460

A gauge or gauging; a measure of the contents of any vessel

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, bogs-heads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, aud to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure. There are also private gaugers In large sea-port towns, who are licensed by government to perform […]

The measure of width of a rail-way, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet 8% Inches in Great Britain and America, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland

A gauger. Lowell

L. Fr. waste or nncultivat-ed ground. Brltt. c. 57

A term used in the English universities to denote double commons

In old Scotch law. ward-er. 1 Pltc. Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 8

A temporary governor of the country. Blount. A bailiff or steward. Spelman

L. Fr. wastel; wastel bread; the finest sort of wheat bread. Britt c. 30 i rfelham

A string or ribbon by which tlie stocking is held upon the leg. The mark of the highest order of English knighthood, ranking next after the nobility. This milita-ry order of knighthood is said to have been first instituted by Richard I., at the siege of Acre, where he caused twenty-six kDights who firmly stood […]

In old English law. An amerciament or fine. Cowell

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the for-tification of a city or camp, or for the orna-ment of a thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Cange; Cowell; Blount

A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals prac-tised in Spain, Portugal, aud some Spauish-American countries, consistiug in strangula-tion by means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the neck of the sufferer, sometimes with the variation that a sharpened screw is made to advance from the back of the apparatus […]

In old English law. Victuals, arms, and other Implements of war, necessary for the defense of a town or castle. Mat. Par. 1250

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person ln whose hands the effects of another are attached not to pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant ln hls hands to him, but to ap-pear and auswer the plalntlfTs sult. Drake. Attachin. S 451; National Bank of wllmlng-ton v. Furtick. 2 […]

In old English law. A garden. Reg. orig. lb, 2