Black's Law Dictionary

In the Law French orthography, this letter is often substituted for the English W, particularly as an initial. Thus, "gage" for "wage," "garranty" for "warranty," "gast" for "waste

An excise; a tax on movables; a rent, custom or service. Co. Litt. 213. —Land gabel. See Land.

The Law Latin form of "gabel," (g. v.)

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

A rent; a tax. Domesday; Du Cange, The gable-end of a house. Cowell.

Rent paid in money. Seld. Tit. Hon. 321.

The payment of custom or tribute. Scott.

Property subject to the gaffoldglld or liable to be taxed. Scott.

Tbe same word as "gabel" or "gavel." Rent; tax; interest of money.

n. In old English law. A pawn or pledge; something deposited as security for the performance of some act or the payment of money, and to be forfeited on failure or non-performance.

Those held in vadio, or pledge. They are of two kinds: (1) Vivum vadium, or living pledge, or vifgage; (2) mortuum vadium, or dead pledge, better known as "mortgage."

In old English law. When he who has distrained, being sued, has not delivered the cattle distrained, then he shall not only avow the distress, but gager deliverance, i. e., put in

Wager of law, (q. v.)

Profits; winnings; increment of value. Gray v. Darlington, 15 Wall. 65, 21 In Ed. 45; Thorn v. De Breteuil, 86 App. Div. 405, 83 N. Y. Supp. 849.

The gain or profit of tilled or planted land, raised by cultivating it; and the draught, 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.

In old English law. A soke-man; one who occupied or cultivated arable land. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.

A thick wood. Spelman.

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

In old records. A piratical vessel; a galley.

In old Scotch law. Amends or compensation for slaughter. Bell.

A kind of coin which, with suskins and doitkin's, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.

A cock-shoot or cock-glade.

A liquid measure, containing 231 cubic inches or four quarts. The imperial gallon contains about 277, and the ale gallon 282, cubic inches. Hollender v. Magone (C. C.) 38 Fed. 914;

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

In old European law. A stroke or blow. Spelman.

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

To game or play at a game for money. Buckley v. O'Niel, 113 Mass. 193, 18 Am. Rep. 466. The word "gamble" is perhaps the most apt and substantial to convey the idea of unlawful pla

One who follows or practices games of chance or skill, with the expectation and purpose of thereby winning money or other property. Buckley v. O'Niel, 113 Mass. 193, 18 Am. Rep. 46

See Gaming.

A machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing of an unlawful game of chance or hazard. In re Lee Tong (D. Ct) 18 Fed. 257; State v. Hardin. 1 Kan. 477.

In life insurance. One issued to a person, as beneficiary, who has no pecuniary interest in the life insured Otherwise calied a "wager policy." Gambs v. Covenant Mut. Ins. Co.., 50

1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abe, See Co.olidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, phe

Laws passed for the preservation of game. They usually forbid the killing of specified game during certain season 2. A sport or pastime, played with cards, dice, or other appliance

One in which the result, as to success or failure, depends less upon the skill and experience of the player than upon purely fortuitous or accidental circumstances, incidental to t

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 together at a game of chanc

See Wager.

In criminal law. Houses la which gambling is carried on as the business of the occupants, and which are frequented by persons for that purpose. They are nuisances, in the eyes of t

See that title.

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

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

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

The time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over by the parish officers,—rogation week. Enc. Lond.

(pronounced "gauntlett.") A military punishment, in which the criminal running between the ranks receives a lash from each man. Enc. Lond. This was called "running the gauntlett."

A prison for temporary confinement; a jail; a place for the confinement of offenders against the law. There is said to be a distinction between "gaol" and "prison ;" the former bei

In criminal law. The delivery or clearing of a gaol of the prisoners confined therein, by trying them. In popular speech, the clearing of a gaol by the escape of the prisoners. —Ge

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

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

A warranty. Spelman.

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

In old Lombardic law. A gift; a free or absolute gift; a gift of the whole of a thing. Spelman.

L. Fr. In old 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 on eviction of the ten

In old English law. A bundle or sheaf. Blada in garbis, corn or grain in sheaves. Reg. Orig. 96; Bract, fol. 209. —Garha sagittarum. A sheaf of arrows, containing twenty-four. Othe

In Scotch law. Tithes of corn, (grain.) Bell.

In English statutes. To sort or cull out the good from the bad in spices, drugs, etc. Cowell. —Garbler of spices. An ancient officer in the city of London, who might enter into any

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

Servants who follow a camp. Wals. 242.

Groom of the stole,

A keeper; a guardian.

A small piece of land, appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers or vegetables. Pcople v. Greenburgh, 57 N. Y. 550; Ferry v. Livingston, 115 U. S. 542, 6 Sup. Ct 17

L. Fr. Custody; wardship.

In old English law. A guardian, defender or protector. In feudal law, gardio. Spelman. A warden. Oardianus ecclesiæ, a churchwarden. Oardianus quinque portuum, warden of the Cinque

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

It. Fr. Wardship; care; custody; also the ward of a city.

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

A sheaf of arrows, containing twenty-four. Otherwise calied "schaf-fa sagittarum." Skene.

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

n. In English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow-prisoners on his entrance into prison. v. 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 to a defendant or who owes the defendant a debt, wh

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person in whose hands the efforts of another are attached not to pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to

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

A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practised in Spain. Portugal, and some Spanish-American countries, consisting in strangulation by means of an iron c

In old English law. An amerciament or flne. Cowell.

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

not a member of the college. Scotland is placed under an officer called "Lyon King-at-Arms," and Ireland is the province of one named "Ulster." Wharton.

In English law. A yard; a little close or homestead in the north of England. Cowell; Blount. A dam or wear in a river, for the catching of fish.

In old Scotch law. Warder. 1 Pitc. Crirn. Tr. pt. 1, p. 8.

A temporary governor of the country. Blount. A baillff or steward. Speiman.

L. Fr. Wastel; wastel bread; the finest sort of wheat bread. Britt, c. 30; Kelham.

L. Fr. Waste or uncultivated ground. Britt, c. 57.

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

The measure of width of a rall-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.

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

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

In English law. Custom; tribute ; toll; yearly rent; payment of revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-gavel, gavel-fodder, etc. Terme

Rent reserved in bread, corn, or provision; rent payable in kind. Cowell.

A eertnin measure of rent-ale. Cowell.

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. Law, c. 12, p. 298. See Emi

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 reserved rent, besides some customary duties to be done by them. Cowell.

A species of socage tenure common in Kent, in England, where the lands descend to all the sens or heirs of the nearest degree, together; may be disposed of by wlll; 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 Hundred of St. Briavel's, subject, in some respects, to the

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

A customary service of mowing meadow-land or cutting grass, (consuetudo fol-candt.) Blount.

Bedreap or bid-reap; the duty of reaping at the bid or command of the lord. Somn. Gavelkind, 19, 21; Cowell.

A customary service, either manuopera, by the person of the tenant, or cwrropera, by his carte or carriages Blount; Somn.' Gavelkind, 24; Du Cange.

The official publication of the English government, also called the "London Gazette," It is evidence of acts of state, and of everything done by the king in his political capacity.

An Anglo-Saxon term, meaning "conveyed."