A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Garnir. L. Fr. To warn, or give notice; to summon; to give time for preparation. Resonablement garni; reasonably warned. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 44. De soy garner de ses respons; to pre

[L. Lat. pensiuncula careeraria] In Enghsh law. Money pud by a prisoner on his entrance into gaol. Forbidden by statute 4 Geo. IV. c. 43, § 12, r. 23. Wharton's Lex. HolthouH. To G

[from L. Fr. garnir, to warn.] A person warned. A party in whose hands money or property is attached by the creditor of another, and who has had warning or garnishment not to pay o

Fr. To warn or summon. Kelham.

[L. Fr. garnisiement, garnement, from garnir, to warn or furnish.] In old English law. A warning; a furnishing. A warning given to one for his appearance, for the better furnishing

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person not to pay money or deliver property to another, but to appear and answer a plaintiff creditor's suit. Cowell. Blount, voc. Garn

Garnestura. L. Lat. [L. Fr. garnesture.] In old English law. A furnishing or providing; garniture; furniture; provision, ammunition and other implements of war. Cowell. Blount. Mat

Garrante. L. Fr. Warrant or authority. Sans especial garrant; without special warrant. Stat, TVestm, 1, c. 24. i Oent lour garrante; shall have their warrant. Artie, sup. Chart, c.

Fr. To warrant. Co. Litt, 365 a. See Garaunter,

Garranty. L. Fr. Warranty. Litt. sect. 146, 697. Stat. Gloc. c. 12.

Fr. A warrantor, or person called upon to warrant. Stat. Gloc. c. 12.

ffarr^nna. L.Lat. In old English law. A warren. Cowell, SpeU man. See Warren,

Garren, Garreyn. L. Fr. A warren; a place for keeping and preserving animals. Britt, c* 33, 42, 53. Kelham. See Garene.

In old English law. A fine or amerciament. Cowell. Written also Gressume and Grossome, but properly Gersuma, (qq. v.) Blount's Nomolex, Advertisement.

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. Id.

Gasachius. L. Lat. [from Sax. sac, a cause.] In old European law. An adversary in a cause. L. Salic. tit. 52, § 2. Spelman.

Gasindius. L. Lat. [from Fr. case, a house, and Sax. hynde, a servant.] In old European law. A house or domestic servant. Marculf. lib. 2, form. 26. Spelman. A family or household,

Gastaldius, Gastaldio, Guastaldus. L. Lat. & Lomb. [from Sax. gast, a ^uest, and haldian, to keep or take care of.] In old European law. A steward, seneschal, bailiff or major-domo

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

Fr. To waste. Britt, c. 6. Gaster le boys; to waste the woods. Id. ibid.

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

In English law. A right in land for the use of cattle.* Called in Suffolk, a beast-gate, and in Yorkshire a cattlegate. It is a corporeal interest in land, distinguishable from the

Lat. To enjoy. Nisi^udeat lucidis intervallis; unless he enjoys lucid intervals. Bract, fol. 12.

Lat. In old English law. A ganger or gager. Cowell.

Lat. In old English law. A gauge, or ganging. Be recto gangeto Anglkano; of the true English gauge. Rot Pari 36 Edw. I. Blount.

[from Sax. gafol, gafel, qq. v.] In English law. Custom, tribute; toll; yearly rent; payment or revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat

In English law. Rent reserved in bread, corn or provision; rent payable in kind. CowelL •

Gavelate. [L. Lat. gaveletum, gavilettum; from gavel, rent or custom, and the old word let, to cease or hinder.] In English law. A rent. Co. Litt. 142 a. A process for the recovery

Statute of. The statute of 10 Edw. 11. by which the proceeding by gavelet, or a similar proceeding, was extended to the city of London, and the law on that subject otherwise modifi

Gavelgild. Sax. [from gavel or gafel, rent or income, and geld, payment; L. Lat. gavelgilda.] In old English law. That which yields a rent or annual profit. Si in gavelgilda, id es

Gavelerth. Sax. In old English law. The duty or work of ploughing so much earth or ground, done by the customary tenant for his lord. Cowell. A rent or customary service, paid or p

Tenants who paid a reserved rent, besides some customaiy duties to be done by them. Cowell. See Gavelman.

Gavelkynd. A customary tenure in England, peculiar for the most part to the county of Kent, by which the land of the father is equally divided at his death among all his sons, or t

In old English law. A tenant liable to the payment of gavel or tribute. Somner on wivelkind, 23.

Oavelryp. In old English law. Bedreap or bidreap; the duty of reaping at the bid or command of the lord. Somner, Oavelk. 19, 21. CovfelL

[L. Lat. sexta Hua vectigalis.] In old English law. A certain measure of rent-ale. Cowell, That is, a rent, tribute or gavel, payable in a certain measure (a sextary or sexter) of

In old English law. A rent or tribute paid in work, either by the person of the tenant, called manuopera, or by his carts or carriages, called earr-opera. Blount.

Fr. Plough tackle, or implements of husbandry; wainage. Kelham.

Fr. To till or cultivate. Si tu ^aynes ma terre sauns man conge; if you till my land without my leave. BritU c. 54. To gain. Put gayner ne per perdre; to gain nor to lose. Id, c. 1

Fr. Acquisition. Britt, c. 63. GE, Oie, Gi. L. Fr. I. Kelham. Corrupt forms of Jeo,

Sax. [from boc, a writing.] To convey by writing. 1 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 10. See Boc, Bocland, Landboc.

Sax. [L. Lat. geburecipaJX In Saxon law. Neighborhood or adjoining district. Nominentur ei sex homines de eadem geburscipa in qua ille residens est; there shall be named to him six

Lat. [Sax. gehure.l In old English law. A country neighbour; an inhabitant of the same geburscip, ox village. Cowell, 68

Fr. [from gainer, to plow.] In Norman law. A husbandm&n or cultivator of the soil. Grand Custum, c. 32.

Gild, Sax. [horn geldan, ggldan, to pay; L. Lat. geldum, geldus, gelturn, gilaa; Graecobarb. yi Uov,\ In Saxon and old English law. A payment, («olutio, redditus^ tax or tribute, {

Liable to pay geld; liable to be taxed. Kel Jtam, See GildahU,

Geltum, Geldus, L. Lat. In old English law. Geld, or gild. Spelman, See Geld,

Lat. In old records. A bundle or sheaf of grain. Spelman,

Gemote, or Mote, Sax. [from gemettan, to meet or assemble: L. Lat. gemotum.] In Saxon law. A public meeting or assembly, (conventus publicus;) a court, or judicial tribunal, (mallu

Lat. [Sax. gemote, mote.] In Saxon law. A public meeting, or court. Si quis gemotum, id est placitum, supersedeat ter, &c.; if any one shall absent himself from court three times,

Sax. In Saxon law. A villein, or agricultural tenant, (villanus, villicus;) a hind or farmer, (firmarius, rusticus,) LL. Ine, c. 19. Spelman.

A person who is authorized by his principal to execute all deeds, sign all contracts, or purchase all goods, required in a particular trade, business, or employment. Story on Agenc

In commercial law. A contribution made by the proprietors in general of a ship or cargo, towards the loss sustained by any individual of their number, whose property has been volun

In pleading and practice. Such damages as necessarily result from the injury complained of, and which may be shown under the ad damnum, or general allegation of damages at the end

In pleading. A demurrer framed in general terms, without showing specifically the nature of the objection, and which is usually resorted to, where the objection is to matter of sub

Lat. General; a general thing. Generale nihil certum implicat. A general expression implies nothing certain. 2 Co. 34 b, Doddington's case. A general recital in a deed has not the

Fr. General. Qenerale rule de ley est que, dkc, Britt. c. 121. Generalement; generally. Id. fol. 3.

Lat. {^\. oi generaU.) General things. Oeaeralia saat pir»poB«Bda •iafalariibB*. General things are to be put before particular things. Branch. Princ. o«b«ralia pn»ccdBBtf spcciali

Lat. General. Generalissimum; most general. 2 Bl. Com. 19. Generalis clausula non porrigitur ad ea quae antea specialiter sunt comprehensa. A general clause does not extend to thos

In pleading. A short general plea, in actions at law, denying the allegations contained ia the plaintiff's declaration in summary terms, and concluding with a tender of issue.* Ste

Lat. [from generalis, q. v.] Generally. Oc Bcrallteir dicta fcaevaliter saat iaterpretaada. Things expressed in general terms, are lo be interpreted generally. Shep. Touch, 88.

A pecuniary legacy, payable out of the general assets of a testator. 2 BL Com, 612. Ward on Legacies, 1, 16.

The right which the bailee of a chattel has to retam possession of it from the owner, until payment be made not only for the particular article, or some labor, service or expense p

At common law where a man was tenant pur auter vie, or had an estate granted to himself only, (without mentioning his heirs,) for the life of another man, and died without alienati

A partnership in which the parties carry on all their trade and business, whatever it may be, for the joint benefit and profit of all the parties concerned, whether the capital sto

in maritime law. A ship open to all merchants; as distinguished from a chartered ship, which is contracted for by one or more exclusively. When the goods of several merchants, unco

In practice. The ordinary verdict delivered orally by a jury in civil actions, in which they find fenerally "for the plaintiff," or "for the efendant," and which is entered on reco

A process which formerly issued from the state secretary's office in England, to take up, (without naming any persons in particular,) the author, printer and publisher of certain l

Lat. Gentlewoman. Cowell. 2 Inst. 668.

Lat. Gentleman; a gentleman. Spelman.

Lat. In old feudal law. A generation; a degree of consanguinity. Lib, Feud, 1, tit. 1. L, Longob. lib. 2, tit. 14, 1. 1. Spelman.

Lat. In Roman law. A class or clan; a subdivision of the Roman people next in order to the curia, (q. v.) and which was again subdivided into families, Adam's Bom. Ant, 34. Brands.

(pi. of ^<?7w.) L.Lat. People. Contra omnes gentes; against all people. Bract, fol. 37 b. Words used in the clause of warranty in old deeds.

[L. Lat. generosus.'\ A title in England ranking next below esquire. 1 BL Com. 406, 406. Spelman, voc. OeneroHUS.

Oentes, Gentz, Gentez, Geans, Gienz, L. Fr. [L. Lat. gentes, q. v.] In old English law. People; persons; folk. Des gents de la ville; the people of the town. Stat, Westm, 1, c. 7.

Lat. A general word. 4 Co. 1Q a.

Grefa, Refa. Sax. [from gerefen or reafen, to exact or take away.] In Saxop law. Greve, reve or reeve; a ministerial officer of high antijjuity in England; answering to the grave o

Lat. [from gerere, to bear.] Bearing. Gerens datum; bearing date. 1 Ld. Raym. 836. Hob. 19.

Lat. To bear or carry; to behave or conduct; to act. Pro hasrede gerere; to act as heir. Inst, 2. 19. 6. Pro hcerede gerere est pro domino gerere; to act as heir is to act as owner

Lat. Descended of the same stock, or from the same couple of ancestors; of the whole or full blood. 1 Mackeld, Civ. Law. 140, § 132.

Sax. <fe L. Lat. In old English law. A price, reward or sum of money; {sumptus, prcemium;) the greater and better part of goods. Spelman, Chron. Sax. A. D. 1035. 1065, cited ibid,

Lat. [from gersuma, q. v.] In old English law. Finable, or liable to be mulcted, fined or amerced at the discretion of the lord. Cowell.

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. ffomehy

Lat. [from gerere, to behave, act or do.] In the civil law. Behaviour, or conduct. See Gestiopro Tuerede, Management or transaction. Negoiiorum gestio; the doing of another's busin

Lat. [from gerere, to act.] In the civil law. One who acts for another, or transacts another's business. Cc Uv. Lex. See Negotiorum gestor.

Lat. [from gerere, to do.] Done; a thing done. A distinction was sometimes made in the civil law, between this word and factum. Gaius, however, in the Digests pronounces this to be

Lat. [from gerere, to conduct; L. Fr. gest, gette.] In old English law. Behaviour; conduct. See De gestu et fama.

Fr. To throw or cast. Getie; cast, (as an essoin.) Britt c. ^4. 128.

Sax. In Saxon law. The giving of evidence. LL, Ethelred. c. 2, apud Srompton.

Sax. Writings. Deeds or charters were so called among the Saxons. 1 Beevei Hist, Eng. Law, 10. Crah Vs Hist 14. See Landboc,

[L. Lat. donatio; L. Fr. dan, done.] A voluntary and gratuitous conveyance, or transfer of lands or goods from one to another, not founded on the consideration of money or blood.*

A voluntary and gratuitous transfer of a chattel or chose in action; which to be valid and binding, must either be accompanied by the solemnity of a deed, or by that of actual deli

Guild, Geld. Sax. [from geldan, or gyldan, to pay; L. Lat. gilda, gildum.'\ In Saxon law. A tax or tribute. Spelman, voc. Getdum. Camd. Brit. 135, 139, 159. <&c. See Geld. Hence gi

Guildable, Geldable. [from Sax. gild, or geld, qq. v.] In old English law. Taxable, tributary or contributory; liable to pay tax or tribute. Cowell. Blount. Stat. 21 Hen. VIII. c.

[from Sax. geld, a payment.] In old English law. A compotation, where every one paid his share. Cowell, Blount.

Lat. A gild merchant, or merchant gild; a gild, corporation, or company of merchants. Beg. Orig. 219 b. 2 £d. Baym. 1134. 1 Spence's Chancery, 56. 8 Co. 125 a. If the king grants t

See Guild-hall,

Guildhalda, L. Lat. [gildcB aula or halla.'l In old English law. The hall or place of meeting of a gild; a guild-hall. Spelman, voc. Geldum, Gildhalla Teutonicorum; the hall or pla

A company of merchants. See Gilda mercatoria.

Lat. In Saxon law. A member of a gild or friborg. Spelman, voc. Geldum,