A Law Dictionary and Glossary

gavel. In old English law. A tax, duty, impost, custom or tribute; a rent or service.

gabellum, I. L In old English law. A rent; interest, or usury; the profit of money.

gafole, gafel, gafnl, sax. Rent, or income; tax, tribute or cus-.tom; the profit or gain of money; interest or usury. Gafol land or gaful land: rented land; land let for rent

sax. The payment of rent or incoma

In old English law. Security; something given to secure the performance of an act

I fr. In old English law. To give or find security or surety for doing a thing; to wage; the giving of security; wager. Gager de ley: wager of law. Gager deliverance: to gage or wa

gaignere, I fr. In old English law. Wainage. v. Oainage.

In old English law. Implements of husbandry or plough tackle, including wains or wagons and their furniture for carrying on the work of tillage; the profit arising from the tillage

gaigner, gayner, I fr. To cultivate, plough or tilL

In old English law. Tillage, or the profit

In old Scots law. A kind of amends, tion for slaughter.

All such animals as are ferm natures and Game laws: laws for the preservation of game at what times, by what means, etc., certain be pursued and taken.

The act or practice of playing any game, of hazard.

A place of confinement or safe keeping, as a prison, from which, however, it seems tinguishable,— a gaol being a place of temporary confinement for minor offenses, or for debt; a p

I. I. In old English law. A gaol.

The keeper of a gaol, — the sheriff of the sidered, the actual keeper being, in contemplation sheriff's deputy.

garraant, garant, L fr. In old English upon, or who might be called upon to warrant party warranting. Garaunt que luy est tenu rantor who is bound to him to warrant

garannty, I. fr. Warranty.

garraunter, I fr. To warrant nyfle a defendre le tenannt en sa seisine, et nifle que si il ne le defende, que le garannt channges, et de faire son gree ala vaillannce: in one sense

I. fr. A warrantor; a vouchee. a person warranted.

l. Lat. In old English law. A bundle or sheaf.

garde, I. fr. In old English law. Garde en Loudrcs est come hundred en is the same as a hundred in a

gard, I. fr. Custody; care of keeping minor.

gardeyn, I fr. In old English law. a warden.

I I. In old English law. A tector; a warden. Gardianus ecclesiae: a anus quinque portunm: warden of the

I. fr. In old English law. Warden. warden of the Fleet

garnir, I. fr. To ward, or give notice time for preparation; to furnish or provide

To warn or give notice.

In Englist), law. Money paid by a into gaol.

A person warned; a party in whose erty is attached by the creditor of another, ing or garnishment not to pay or deliver it

A warning to a person in whose another are attached, not to pay the money fendant the property of the defendant in and answer the plaintiffs suit In old English law. A warning; a f

garuestura, I. I. In old English providing; garniture; furniture; provision implements of war.

garrante, I. fr. Warrant or authority.

garranty, I fr. Warranty.

I. fr. A warrantor, or person called

garrantir, I. fr. To warrant

garrenna, garrene, garren, garreyn, place for keeping and pi-eserving animals.

In old English law. A fine or

I. fr. Furniture; clothing; a

I. I In old law. A castle; a fortified place.

I. fr. To waste. Gaster le hoys: to

I. fr. Waste or uncultivated ground.

In English law. A right in land for the

I. To enjoy. Ward; a ward of a city. county: a ward in London county.,; ward; wardship of a A guardian; a keeper; guardian, defender or prochurch warden. Gardi- Cinque Ports. Gardi

gavelate. In English law. A rent; a process for the recovery of rent in gavel-kind tenure. (xavelgeld, ^avelgild, sax. In old English law. That which yields a rent or annual profit

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.

In old English law. A tenant liable to the payment of gavel or tribute.

Tenants who paid a reserved rent, in addition to some customary duties.

gavelkynd, gavelkende. In English law. A kind of socage tenure peculiar to the county of Kent, where lands descend to all the sons equally, or to heirs of the nearest degree, and w

In old English law. A duty, work or service of mowing grass, or cutting meadow land, required by a lord from his customary tenant

gavelryp. In old English law. Bed-reap or bid-reap; the duty of reaping at the bid or command of the lord.

In old English law. A certain measure of rent-ale.

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

sax. In Saxon law. Neighborhood or adjoining district.

sax. To convey by writing.

I. I. In old English law. A country neighbor; an inhabitant of the same geburscip, or village.

gild, sax. In Saxon and old English law. A payment, tax or tribute; a sum of money exacted of a subject; a mulct or fine; a satisfaction or compensation for a crime; the price or v

gemote, sax. In Saxon law. A public meeting or assembly; a court, or judicial tribunal.

1. 1. In Saxon law. A public meeting, or court

That which comprehends all, from special, which signifies something purpose. General act: an act of the whole community. General agent: a his principal to execute all deeds, sign g

I General. Generalis Clausula non porrigitnr ad ea quee antea specialiter snnt compreliensa: a general clause does not extend to those things which are previously provided for spec

I. General; a general thing. Generate dictum generaliter est interpretandum: a general expression is to be interpreted generally. Generale nihil eertum [certi] iniplicat: a general

I. l, Gentilhome, fr., Gentleman. In the English law. A man entitled to bear arms; a man above the rank of yeoman.

t In Roman law. A class or clan; a people or nation; a subdivision of the Roman people next in order to the curia (q. v.), and which was again subdivided into familice.

I. I In old records and pleadings. A hundred weight Centensi piscium: a hundred weight of fish. Centena cer%, zncarii, piperis, cumini, etc., continet tredecim petras ct dimldlum:

gentes, gentz, gentez, geans, gienz, L. Fr. In old English law. People; persons; folk. Gentz arrages: insane persons. Gentz malades: sick people. Gentz nient demorauntz en pays: pe

grefa, refa, saoo. In Saxon law. Greve, reve or reeve, a ministerial ofl Bcer of high antiquity in England, answering to the grave or graf of the early continental nations; a stewa

I., German. Of the whole

sax. and I. I. In old English money; the gi-eater and better part paid for a thing; a fine, amerciament fense.

1. 1. In old English law. fined or amerced at the discretion

sax. In Saxon laie. A guest; a his entertainment in another's house.

I. I. In the civil law. Behavior, transaction. Gestio pro hserede: by which an heir renders himself V. Gerere.

t Done; a thing done; a without words.

I. In the civil law. One who other's business.

I. fr. To throw or cast; to

sax. Writings. Deeds or Saxons.

A voluntary and gratuitous goods from one to another, not money or blood. In English law. A conveyance of ' estate tail, in which the operative given.''

guild, ^eld, sax. In Saxon law. or amerciament; a society, or gether, under certain regulations, so called because its expenses were its members; a f riborg, or decennary.

In old English law. A his share.

guildable, geldable. In old or contributory; liable to pay tax

gnildhalla, L I. In old behave or conduct; to act, strictly administer. Gerere pro hajrede: blood; of the nearest degree. law. A price, reward or sum of of goods; a fine or conside

In old English law. A rent nity. trirtll and sanctuary. In old Scots law. ers, where the murder was committed an^ in heat of passion.

gyser, I fr. In old English law. To a meason; to lie or lodge at a house. Gisaunte au founs: lying at the bottom.

V. Color; Gift; Dare; Dedi; Do.

I. A sword; an ancient emblem the executory power of the law in

The author of the most ancient written in Latin, about 1181, under the et Consuetudinibus Anglice: A Treatise England.

I. In old English law. Church land son of a church is annexed. In the civil law. A turf, sod or clod of cultivated land in general.

glebeland. Church land; land

LI A gloss; an explanation or ina est quae corrodit viscera textus: which eats out the bowels of the text.

statute of. An English statute, the reign of Edward L It is in fifteen is commented on by Coke in 'his second statute that gave costs in actions. Go. To be dismissed from court, as

wardia, warda, I. I tection.

garentizare, I. I To warrant

gnerpy, I. fr. Abandoned; deserted.

gnarra, gwerra, wer Ta, /. L In old English law. War, either public or private.

L In old English law. A gulf, or deep pit of water.

curtesy of England. An estate to which a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in lands of which she was seised during cov-

sax. In old English law. A imposed for offenses against religion; fine.

godgeld, sax. In Saxon law. to God, or his service.

In old English law. Earnest

In English law. called, because the bankers of London