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Reasonable; suitable; sufficient; valid; meeting all legal requirements. See 10 Gray (Mass.) 302; 36 Mo. App. 192. As Applied to Commercial Paper. Genuine; collectible. 4 Mete. (Mass.) 48; 1 N. J. Law, 99. As Applied to Persons. Of a debtor, solvent (21 Mo. App. 372); of a person in a representative or ofl Rcial capacity (1 Blackf. [Ind.] 396). As Applied to Property Sold. Reasonably sound and suitable. See 1 Idaho, 41.

1. Valid; sufficient in law; effectual ; unobjectionable.
2. Responsible; solvent; able to pay an amount specified.
3. Of a value corresponding with its terms; collectible. A note is said to be "good" when the payment of it at maturity may be relied on. Curtis v. Smallman, 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 232; Cooke v. Nathan, 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 344. Writing the word "Good" across the face of a check is the customary mode in which bankers at the present day certify that the drawer has funds to meet it, and that it will be paid on presentation for that purpose. Merchants' Nat. Bank v. State Nat. Bank, 10 Wall. 645. 19 L. Ed. 1008; Irving Bank v. Wetherald, 36 N. Y. 335.

— Good abearing. See Abearance.

— Good and lawful men. Those who are not disqualified for service on juries by non-age, alienage, infamy, or lunacy, and who reside in the county of the venue. Bonds v. State, Mart. & Y. (Tenn.) 146, 17 Am. Dec. 795; State v. Price, 11 N. J. Law, 209.

— Good and valid. Reliable, sufficient, and unimpeachable in law; adequate; responsible.

— Good behavior. Orderly and lawful conduct; behavior such as is proper for a peaceable and law-abiding citizen. Surety of good behavior may be exacted from any one who manifests an intention to commit crime or is otherwise reasonably suspected of a criminal design. Huyser v. Com., 76 S. W. 175. 25 Ky. Law Rep. 608; In re Spenser, 22 Fed. Cas. 921.

— Good consideration. As distinguished from valuable consideration, a consideration founded on motives of generosity, prudence, and natural duty; such as natural love and affection. Potter v. Grade, 58 Ala. 307, 29 Am. Ren. 748; Groves v. Groves, 65 Ohio St. 442, 62 N. E. 1044; Jackson v. Alexander, 3 Johns. (N. Y.) 484, 3 Am. Dec. 517.

— Good country. In Scotch law. Good men of the country. A name given to a jury.

— Good faith. Good faith consists in an honest intention to abstain from taking any unconscientious advantage of another, even through the forms or technicalities of law, together with an absence of all information or belief of facto which would render the transaction unconscientious. Crouch v. First Nat. Bank, 156 111. 348, 40 N. E. 974; Docter V. Furch, 91 Wis. 464, 65 N. W. iel: Gress v. Evans, 1 Dak. 387, 46 N. 'W. 1132; Walraven v. Bank, 96 Tex. 331, 74 S. W. 530; Searl v. School Dist., 133 U. S. 553, 10 Sun. Ct. 374, 33 L. Ed. 740.

— Good jury. A jury of which the members are selected from the list of special jurors. See L. R. 5 C. P. 155.

— Good title. This means such a title as a court of chancery would adopt as a sufficient ground for compelling specific performance, and such a title as would be a good answer to an action of ejectment by any claimant. Reynolds v. Borel, 86 Cal. 538, 25 Pac. 67; Irving v. Campbell, 121N. Y. 358, 24 N. El 821, 8 L. It. A. 620; Gillespie v. Broas, 23 Barb. (N. Y.) 381.

Valid; sufficient in law; effectual; solvent; able to pay an amount specified; with its terms; collectible. Good tion for one, several or all of those pressed on a person by nature or habit, other persons; as, reputation for payable by any gild or frater- An asylum given to murderwithout any previous design, lie; to be competent Giser Giser en langour: to lie sick. of defense; the emblem of punishing crimes. treatise on English law, tjtle of Tractatus de Legibus of the Laws and Customs of; land to which the advowearth; the soil or ground; belonging to a parish church. interpretation. Glossa Tiperthat is a viperous gloss passed in the sixth year of chapters, in law French, and Institute. It was the first without day; to issue from as a decision. fine, or amercement anciently an ecclesiastical or church That which is paid or offered money. Bankers' notes, — originally so were goldsmiths also. unobjectionable; responsible; of a value corresponding character: good general reputaqualities of mind or morals imand distinguishing him from chastity, varacity, peaceableness, the benefit or advantage attending a particular business, in consequence of the patronage it receives from habitual customers. In old, English law. Good abearing: the exact carriage or behavior of a subject to the king and his liege people, to which men were sometimes anciently bound, upon their evil course of life or loose demeanor. Good man: a good and lawful man; a term applied, in old English and feudal law, to persons of unexceptionable character, and especially such as were qualified to act as jurors or witnesses in courts.

In Scots law. Good country: good men of the country, — a name given to a jury. 6oods. A term of large meaning, applied to things movable; strictly, inanimate movables. The word is elastic, however, and in a will may mean any kind of personal pi'operty. Goods and chattels: personal property, including not only personal property in possession, but also choses in action, and all animate as well as inanimate property, emblements and other vegetable productions, and leases for years of houses or lands. Goods and merchandise: any personal property.

Generally speaking, preserves its popular, untechnical meanings. Compare Bad; Bonus. 1. Orderly, lawful: as, good behavior, q. v. 2. Fair, honorable: as, good fame, or character, q. v. 3. Valid, valuable: as, a good consideration, q. v. 4. Legally sufficient: as, a good — count, deed, defense, ground, qq. v. 5. With lawful intent: as, good faith, q. v. 6. Genuine, not spurious; also, collectible: as, a good note. 7. Responsible; able to pay a money obligation. In this sense bondsmen, indorsers, partners, and wrong-doers are spoken of as "good."

In this sense, also, is "good" written upon the face of a check. See Check, Certified. 8. Welfare, prosperity, happiness: as, the public good; also whatever promotes the general welfare of society: as, good morals, "the greatest good." See Morals; Police, 2; Welfare.