A Dictionary of Law

A tax or duty on personalty. Cowell; Spelman.

Persons who paid gavel, rent, or tribute. Domesday; Cowell.

The payment of custom or tribute. Scott.

Property subject to the galffoldgild, or liable to be taxed. Scott.

The same word as “gabel” or “oavel.” Rent; tax; interest of monoy.

». Inold Englishlaw. Topawn or pledge; to give as security for a payment or performance; to wage or wager,

Profits; winnings; increment of value.

The gain or profit of tilled or planted land, raised by cultivating it; and the dranght, plow, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser kind of sokemen or vil

Tillage, or the profit arising from it, or from the beasts employed therein.

<A thick wood. Spelman.

The payment of arent, tax, duty, or annuity. A gale is the right to open and work a mine within the Hundred of St. Briavel's, or a ston6 quarry within the open lands of the Forest

In old records. A_ piratical vessel; a galley.

Inold Scotechlaw. Amends or compensation for slaughter. Bell.

A kind of coin which, with suskins and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. ec. 1.

A cock-shoot, or cock-glade.

A liquid measure, containing 231 cubic inches, or four quarts. The tmperial gallon contains about 277, and tha ale gallon 282, cubic inclies.

A scaffold; a beam laid over either one or two posts, from which malefactors are hanged.

In old European law. A NM

A child born in lawful wedlock; also one born to betrothed but unmarried parents. Spelman.

The word “gamble” is perhaps the most apt and substantial to convey the idea of unlawful play that our language affords. It is inclusive of hazarding and betting as well as playing

One who follows or practices games of chance or skill, with the expectation and purpose of thereby winning money or other property. 113 Mass, 193.

A machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing of an unlawful game of chance or hazard.

In life insurance. One issued to a person, as benoliciary, who has no pecuniary interest in the life insured. Otherwise called a “wager policy.” 50 Mo. 47.

Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See 11 Metc. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, pheasants, partridges, grou

One who has the care of keeping and preserving the game on an estate, being appointed thereto by a lord of @ manor.

Laws passed for the preservation of game. They usually forbid the killing of specified game during certain seasons or by certain described means..As to English game-laws, see 2 Ste

The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling; the playing at any game of hazard. An agreement between two or more persons to play togetherat a game of chance

In criminal law. Honses in which gambling is carried on as the business of the occupants, and which are frequented by persons forthat purpose. They are nuisances, in the eyes of th

In Spanish law. A species of community in property enjoyed by husband and wife, the properly being divisible between them equally on a dissolution of the marriage. 1 Burge, Confl.

In Spanish law. Gains or profits resulting from the employment of property held by husband and wife in common, White, New Kecop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5.

Officers in ancient times whose business if was to examine weights and measures. Skene.

(pronounced “gauntlett.”} A military punishment, in which the criminal running between the ranks receives tlash from each man. Ene. Lond. This was called “running the gauntlett.”

A prison for temporary confine. There is said to be a distinction between “gaol” and “prison,” the former being a place for tempotary or provisional confinement, or for the punishm

In criminal law. The delivery or clearing of a gacl of the pris- Nn oners confined therein, by trying them. A cominission of general gaol delivery is one of the four commissions un

The master or keeper of a prison; one who has the custody of a place where prisoners are confined.

GAOL LIMITS. A district around a gaol, defined by limits, within which prisoners are allowed to go at ee large on giving security toreturn. It is considered a part of the gaol.

In old English law and practice. A taking orseizure; arrest; receiving; holding of court.

or GARANTIA. A warranty. Spelman.

In French law. This eee word corresponds to warranty or covenants ee for title in English law. In the case of a sale this garantie extends to two things: (1) Peaceful possession of

In old Lombardie law. A gift; a free or absolute gift; a gift of the whole of athing. Spelman.

Fr. Inold English law. A warrantor of land; a vouchee; one bound by a warranty to defend the title and seisin of his alienee, or, on default thereof, and yn eviction of the tenant,

Inold Englishlaw. A bundle orsheaf. Blade in garbis, corn or grain in sheaves. Keg. Orig. 96; Bract. fol. 209.

A sheaf of arrows, containing twenty-four, Otherwise called “sehajfa sayittarum.” Skene,

In English statutes. Tosort or cull out the good from the bad in spices, drugs, ete. Cowell.

An ancient officer in the city of London, who might enter into any shop, warehouse, ete., to view and seurch drugs and spices, and garble and make clean the same, or see that itbed

Servants who follow a camp. Wals. 242.

or GARDE. Wardship; care; custody; also the ward of a city,

A keeper; a guardian.

<Asmall piece of land, appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

Custody; wardship.

Inold Englishlaw. A guardian, defender, or protector. In feudal law, gardio. Spelman. A warden. Gardianus ecclesia, a churchwarden. Gardianus quingue portuum, warden of the Cinque

Inold English law. A garden. Rog. Orig. 1d, 2.

Fr. A warren; a privileged place for keeping animals.

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

mn. In Englishlaw. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow-prisoners on his entrance inte prison.

». To warn or summon. To issue process of garnishment against a person.

One garnished; a person against whom process of garnishment is issued; one who has money or property in his possession belonging toa defendant, or who owes the defendant a debt, wh

In the process of atto pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but to appear and unswer the plaintifi’s suit. Drake, Attachm. § 451. - A. “garni

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the fortification of a city or cump, or for the ornament ofa thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Cange; Cowell; Blount.

In old Englishlaw. An amerciament or fine. Cowell.

A string or ribbon by which the stocking is held upon theleg. The mark of the highest order of English knighthood, ranking next after the nobility. ‘This military order of knightho

Fr. Wastel; wastel bread; the finest sort of wheat bread. Britt. ec. 30; Kkelham.

Fr. Waste or uncultivated ground. Lritt. c. 57.

Inold English law. <A sokeman; one who occupied or cultivated arable land. Old Nat. Brey. fol. 12.

A term used in the English universities to denota double commons.

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

A gauger. Lowell.

A surveying officer underthe customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and t

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

A certain measure of rent-ale. Cowell.

Anancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. Il. 2 Reeve, Eng, Law, c. 12, p. 298.

That which yields annual profit or toll. The tribute or toll itself. Cowell; Du Cange.

A service of plowing performed by a customary tenant. Cowell; Du Cange.

Tenants who paid

A species of socage tenure common in Kent, in England, where the lands deseend to all the sons, or heirs of the nearest desree, together; may be disposed of by will; do not escheat

An officer of the English crown having the general management of the mines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Wundred of St. Briaval’s, subject, in some respects, fo the

Inold Englishlaw. A tenant liable to the payment of gavel or tribute. Somn. Gavelkind, 23.

A customary service of mowing meadow-iand or cutting grass, (consuctwio feleandt.) Blount.

Inold Englishlaw. LBedrea, or bidreap; the duty of reuping at the bid or command of the lord. Somn. Gavelkin’, 19, 21; Cowell.

A customary service, either manuopera, by the person of the tenunt, or car7opera, by lis carts or carriages. Blornt; Somn. Gavelkind, 24; Du Cange.

The official publication of the English government, also called the “London Gazette.” It is evidence of acts of stats, and of everything done by the queen in hex political capacity

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

An Anglo-Saxon term, meaning “conveyed.”

In Saxonlaw. Toconvey; to transfer boe land, (book-land or land held by charter.) The grantor was said to gebocias thealienee. See 1 Reeve, Hug. Law, 10.

Neighvorbecd or adjoining district. Cowell.

In old English law. A

Lat. In old Engligh law. The executor of a last will and testament. Cowell.

A general de money (that is, a like sum] is to be returned. It is equivalent to a lean, and the money deposited becomes the property of the depositary. 43 Ala. 188.

In old Scotch law. GQaolers. 1 Pite. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 234.

Liable to pay geld; Mable to be taxed. Kelham.

Lat, In the civil law. A gem; a precious stone. Gems were distinguished by their transparency; such as emeralds, chrysolites, amethysts. Dig. 34, ay, 1. ve

Gentlewoman. Cowell; 2 Inst. 668.

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 as

Tie head of a family,

Lat. In the civil iaw. A son-in-law; & daughter’s husband. (fidie vir.) Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.

Pertaining to, or designating, the genus or class, as distinguished from that which characterizes the species or individual. Universal, not particularized; as opposed to select. Ob

A person who fs authorized by his principal to execute all deeds, sign all contracts, or purchase all goods, required in a particular trade, business, or employment. Story, Ag. § 1

An unqualified or unrestricted submission to the jurisdiction of thecourt. See APPEARANCE.

A name given in some of the United States to tle senate and house of representatives, which compose the leyislative body.