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Gainage

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Fr. & Eng. [L. Lat. gainagium, wainagium; L. Fr. gaignage, from Fr. gainer, to cultivate; or Sax. waen, a wain or wagon.] In old English law. Implements of husbandry or plough tackle, including wains or wagons and their furniture for carrying on the work of tillage.

Cowell. Blount.

Et villein savant son gainage; and the villein, saving his wainage.

Stat. Westm. 1, c. 6.

The profit arising from the tillage of land.

Cowell.

Termes de la ley.

See Wainage.