Gastaldus
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A steward or bailiff.
Spelman.
Also applied to higher officers, as a governor of a city. In the book of feuds it seems to have been used in the sense of "warden." GASTINE (Law Fr.) Waste or uncultivated ground. Britt. c.
57.
GATE (Saxon, geat). At the end of names of places, signifies way or path.
Cunningham.
In the words "beast gate" and "cattle gate," it means a right of pasture. These rights are local to Suffolk and Yorkshire, respectively. They are considered as corporeal hereditaments, for which ejectment will lie (2.Strange, 1084; 1 Term R. 137), and are entirely distinct from right of common. The right is sometimes connected with the duty of repairing the gates of the pasture, and perhaps the name comes from this.