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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
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.
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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.