A Dictionary of Law

A chureh- warden. GUARDIAN DE L°ESTEMARY, The warden of the stamnaries or mines in Cornwall, etc.

The father, or, at his decease, the mother, of a ehild. This kind of guardianship extends only to the person, and determines when the infant arrives at the age of fourteen. 2 Kent,

In the tenure by knight’s service, in the feudal law, if the heir of the feud was under the age of twenty-one, being a male, or fourteen, being a female, the lord was entitled toe

Atthe common law, this was a species of guardian who had the custody of lands coming to the infant by descent, as also of the infant’s person, until the latter reached the age of f

In English law. A person elected by the ratepayers of a parish to have the charge and mnanagement of the parish work-house or union. Sea 3 Steph. Comm. 208, 215. GUARDIAN OF THE SP

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

A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman.

In Spanish law. <A written authorization to a court to enforce the performance of an agreement in the sime manner ag if it had been decreed upon regular legal proceedings.

In old European law. <A provision of necessary things. Spelman. A furnishing or garnishment.

One who had the custody of the royal mansions,

Lat. In lioman law. The pilot or steersman of a ship.

In military law. An independent body of marauders or armed men, not regularly or organically connected with the armies of ejther belligerent, who carry on a species of irregular wa

GUERPY. L. Fr. Abandoned; left; deserted. Britt. c. 33.

A traveler who lodges at an inn or tavern with the consent of the keeper. Bac. Abr. “Inns,” C, 5; 8 Coke, 32, A guest, as distinguished from a boarder, is bound for nu stipulated t

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

In old French law. Watch. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 6.

In§panish law. Arightof way for narrow earts. White, New Recop. 1. 2, ce. 6, § 1.

In old English law. That which was given for safe conduct through a strange territory, or another's territory. Cowell.

An iron or steel plate to be altached to a rail for the purpose of guiding to their place on the rail wheels thrown off the track. Dub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1291.

The name of atreatise 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.

A voluntary association of persons pursuing the same trade, art, profession, or business, such as printers, goldsmiths, wocl merecrants. ete., unitel under a distinct organization

The hall or place of meeting of a guéid, or gild. The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. The mercantils or commercial gild/s of the Saxons are s

The sittings held in the Guildhail of the city of London for city of London causes. GUiLT. Incriminal law. That quality which imparts criminality toa motive or act, and renders the

Rents payable to the crown by any guilu, or such as formerly belonged to religious guilds, and came to the crown at the general dissolution of the monasteries, Tomlins.

Having committed a crime or tort; the word used by a prisoner in pleading to an indictment when he eonfesses the crime of which he is charged, and by the jury in convicting.

A coin formerly issned by the English mint, but all these coins were called in in the time of Wm. ITV. The word now means only thesum of £1. Is., in which denomination the fees of

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

The heraldic name of the color usually called “red.” The word is derived from the Arabic word “guile,” a rose, and was probably introduced by the Crusaders. Gules is denoted in eng

Wears. Jacob.

In Scotechlaw. Curteasy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court. subtle] and captious interpretation is repro- S8t.5 & 6 Wm. TV. c. 82. Spence, Eq. Jur

Jutes; one of the three nations who migrated from Germany fo Britain at an early period. According to Spelman, they established themselves chiefly in Kent and the Isle of Wight.

The diminutive of a sewer. Callis, Sew. (80,) 100.

Maid’s fee. A British word signifying a customary fine payable to lords of some manors on marriage of the tenant’s daughters, or otherwise on their committing incontinence. Cowell.

A place of execution. Jacob.

The name of a court which was held every three weeks in the liberty or hundred of Pathbew in Warwick. Jacob.

Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell.

or GYNACOCRACY. Government by a woman; a state in which women are legally capable of the supreme command; e. g., in Great Britain and Spain.

monks. HH. H. This letter, as an abbreviation, stands for Tlenry (a king of that name) in the citation of English statutes. Inthe Year Looks, itis used as an abbreviation for Hilar

A writ commanding the sheriff to bring up the persons of jurors, and, if need were, to distrauin tiem of their lands and goods, in order to insure or compel their attendance in cou

(You have the body.) The name given toa variety of writs, (of which these were anciently the emphatic words,) having for their object to bring a party before a court or judge. In c

The English statute of 31 Car. IL. c. 2, is the original and prominent habeas corpie act. It was amended and supplemented by St. 56 act is justly regarded as the greaf constitu. ti

In old conveyancing. To have and to hold. Formal words in deeds of land from a very early period. Bract. tol, 178.

In old Englishlaw. Rich men; literally, having men. The same with fasiing-men, (g.v.) Cowell.

Riches. Mon, Angl. t. 1, 100.

Lat. In thecivil law. To have. Sometimes distinguished from tenere, (to hold,) and possidere, (to possess;) habere referring to the right, tenere to the fact, and possidere to both

That you cause to have possession. The name of the process commonly resorted to by the successful party in an action of ejeectment. for the purpose of being placed by the sheriff i

That you cause to have a view. <A writ to cause the sheriff to take a view of lands or tenements,

That you cause to have seisin. The writ of execution in real actions, directing the sheriff to canse the demandant to have seisin of the lands recovered. It was the proper process

Lat. In Reman law, To allow [one] to have [possession.] This phrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow the purcliaser to have the possession and enjoyment. Fora br

A diminutive of hauberk, a short coat of mail without sleeves. Blount.

A cloth of a mixed color. Magna Charta, c. 26.

Have or take your effects to yourself. Oneof Lhe old Roman forms of divorcing a wife. Calvin.

Lat. Fit; suitable; active; useful, (of a servant.) Proved; authentic, (of Book of Saints.) Fixed; stable, (of authority of the king.) Du Cange.

A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a usual repetition of the same act or function.

A covenant by a lessee to “put the premises into habitable repair” binds him to put them into such a state that they may be occupied, not only with safety, but with reasonable comf

It is dificult to give an exact delinition of “habitancy.” In general terms, one may be designated as an “inhabitant” of that place which constitutes the principal seat of his resi

Bythelawof Scotland, marriage may be established by “habit and repute” where the parties cohabit and are at the same time held and reputed as man and wife. See Bell. The same rule

Fr. In French and Ca nadian law. <A resident tenant; a settler; a tenant who kept hearth and home on the seigniory.

In the éivil law. The right of dwelling; the right of free residence in another’s house. Inst. 2, 5; Dig. 7, 8.

fn the civil law. The right of a person to live in the honse of another without prejudice to the property. It differed from a usufruct, in this: that the usutructuary might apply t

The statute 32 & 33 Viet. c. 99. By this act power was given to apprehend on suspicion convicted persons holding license under the penal servitude acts, 1853, 1857, and 1864. The a

A person given to ebriety or the excessive use of intoxicating drink, who has lost the power or the will, by frequent indulgence, to control his appetite for it. 18 Pa. St. 172. On

Fr. In old English law, A port or harber; a station for ships. St. 27 Hen. VI. c. 3.

In Romanlaw. An exception. In a general sense, a judicial alle gation opposed by a defendant to the pisintiff's action. Calvin. A stop or stay to an action opposed by the defendant

L. Lat. This is the final agreement. The words with which the foot of a fine commenced. 2 Bl. Comm. 351.

In Spanish law. The public domain; the royal estate; the aggregate wealth of the state. The science of administering the national wealth; public econ-

Carriages plying for hire in the street. The driver is Niable for hee: nesli tani tly losing Ng baggage. DSBEAgS

In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the violation of holy orders, or violence offered to persons in holy orders. Cowell; Blount.

In Hindu law. A bonndary or limit, A statutory punishment delined by law, and not arbitrary. Mozley & Whitley

Hatred; ill will; prejudice, or partiality. Spelman; Cowell.

A tax or mulet. Jacob,

In the civil law. Extraneous, strange, or foreign heirs; those who were not subject to the power of the testator. Inst. 2, 19, 3.

A haven or port. Cowell.

A contract in which the performance of that which is one of its objects depends on an uncertain event, Civil Code La. art, 1769. Seel J. J. Marsh, 596, HE. Tho use of this pronoun

A hedge. Mon. Angl. tom. 2, p. 273.

A little hand-gun. St. 33 Hen. VIII. e. 6.

<A hand-gun of a larger description than the lagne. St. 2 & 3 Edw. Vi.e. 14,4&5P.&M. c. 2.

A park inelosed. Cowell.

In old English law. A permission or liberty to take thorns, etc., to make or repair hedges. Blount.

In Seotch law. Whole; the whole. * All and haill” are common words in conveyances. I Bell, App. Cas. 499.

{@. ¢., holyworkfolk.) Those who, formerly held lands by the service of defending or repairing a church or monument. gear, and bring the same Home again. Skene de Verb. Sign.

In Scotch Jaw. The crime of assaulting a person in hia own house, Bell.

A military coat of defense,

A noble, or six shillings and eight pence in iinglish money,

A term denoting the degree of relationship which exists between those who have the same father or tne same mother, but not both parents in eommon. See BROTHER.

HALF-SISTER, Persons who have the same father, but different mothers; or the same mother, but different fathers.

A copper coin of the United States, of the value of five mills, and of the weight of ninety-four grains. The coinage of these wus discontinued in 1857.

In common-law pleading. The technical name of the come mon clause at the commencement of a de fendant’s plea: “And the said defendant, by » his attorney, comes and defends the wron

A silver (now nickel) coin of the United States, of the value of tive cents.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of Bity cents, or one-half the value of a dollar.

A moiety, or half of a thing.

A gold eoin of the United States, of the value of five dollars.

In Saxon law. Haitking, (semi-rex.) <A title given to the aldermen of all England. Crabb, Eng. Law, 28; Spelman.

Inihe civillaw. Proof by one witness, or a private instriment. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3. ¢. 9, ne. 25; 3 Bl. Comm, 370. Or prima facie proof, which yet was nob sufficient to found

A child who, by the operation of the English factory and education acts, is employed for less than the full time in a factory or workshop, in order that he may attend some “recogni

A jury half of one tongue or nationality and half of another. See DE Mrpiera Te Linev 2.

In legal cumputation, The period of one hundred and eighty-two days; the odd hours being rejected. Co. Litt, 1856; Cro. Jae. 166; Yel. 100; 1 Steph. Comm. 265.

In Saxon law. The meeting of a hall, (conventws aule,) that is, a lord’s court; a court of a manor, or courtbaron. Spelman. So called trom the hadi, where the tenants or freemen me

In English law. The feast of All Saints, on the Ist of November; one of the eross-quarlers of the year, was computed from Halimas to Candlemas. Wharton,

Peter. <A collection of Latin maxims and roles in law and equity, selected from the most eminent authors on the civil, canon, feudal, English, and Scots law, with an English transl