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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Sax. In Saxon law. A guest. A name given to a stranger on the second night of his entertainment in another's house. Twa night gest. LL, Edw. Conf. c.
17, apud Spelman, voc. ffomehyne.
Bracton writes the word gust. Bract, fol.
124 b.
Geste is the form in Britton. Britt, c.
12.