A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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

The account distinguished from an Month; Time; Year.

I. A putting together, or making up; composition or satisfaction; a statute or ordinance. Compositio mensurarum: the ordinance of measures; an ancient ordinance, mentioned in the s

I. To grant. Concessit (pi, concesserunt): granted. Goncessimus: allowed.

I. In old English patentes: a patentee.

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

A. U. 630, forbidding that any one should possess more than five hundred acres of land, and providing for a division of any excess among the poorer people. Lex Aquilia: the Aquilia

I. fr. and eng. Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right V. Days of grace.

I. In old English law. By degrees or steps; step by step; from one degree to another.

I. In old English law. Degree; rank; grada In civil and canon law. A degree in relationship.

grapharius, 1 1 In old English law. A graffer, notary or scrivener.

gratfinm, I. I In old English law. A writing book or regis-" ter; a cartulary of deeds and evidences.

The twenty-fourth (anciently the thirty-second) part of a pennyweight, or weight of an English penny.

1. 1 In old English law. An o£5cer having charge of a granary.

I. fr. and eng. Great; large; high. Contrasted generally with petty, and denoting superiority in magnitude, number, quality, dignity, importance,- etc Grand bill of sale: the instr

I. fr. and eng., Grangea, grangia, I. I A building where corn or grain is kept and stored; a barn or granary; other outbuildings necessary for husbandry, as stables for horses, sta

grangerus, I. I. In old English law. A granger, or grange-keeper.

graunte, I. fr. Great. Grannt duresce: great hardship.

An operative word of conveyance, particularly appropriate to deeds of grant, properly so called, but used in other conveyances also, such as deeds of bargain and sale, and leases.

In the moat general sense, the passing of a thing from one person to another, whether by feoffment, bargain and sale, gift or lease; in a stricter sense, a species of common-law co

I. In old English law. Freely; gratuitously; without fea Gratis dictum: a voluntary assertion; a statement which a party is not legally bound to make, or in which he is not held to

Without valuable or legal consideration. In old English law. Voluntary; without force, fear or favor.

graunde, 2. /n Great; high. Graund treson: great or high treason.

I. I. In old English law. Injury; oppi-ession; a grievance, or thing complained of; the essence of a complaint.

I. In old English law. To grieve or aggrieve; to injure or oppress. Gravati: aggrieved.

I. Grievous; great

I. fr. Grievously; heavily, or severely.

In' English la%v. An assembly of the wise men of the nation, which succeeded the Witenagemote of Anglo-Saxon times, and was the original of parliament. Great seal: the emblem of ro

gre, I. fr. Satisfaction; contentment; agreement; will; consent.

and Caesar, Pompey and Sylla among the Romans.

In English law. A board or court of justice held in the counting-house of the king's household, and composed of the lord steward and inferior ofi Bcei-s. It takes its name from the

The code or collection of constitutions made by the Roman jurist Gregorius.

I. fr. Greater. Greinder ou meinder: greater or less.