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In the Law French orthography, this letter is often substituted for the English W, particularly as an initial. Thus, "gage" for "wage," "garranty" for "warranty," "gast" for "waste

The term "G–5 visa" means a nonimmigrant visa issued pursuant to section 1101(a)(15)(G)(v) of this title.

GAFOL, or GAVEL. A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. Cunningham. But this seems to be an error; for ga

In old European law. A tax or duty on merchandise or personalty. Spelman; Cowell. A tax on salt in France. Spelman; Brande.

Those who paid gabel. GABLUM (spelled," also, gabulum, gabula). The gable-end of a building. Kennett, Paroch. Antiq. p. 201; Cowell. A tax. Du Cange. See Gafol.

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

GABULUM, or GABULA. The gable end of a building. Kennett, Par. Ant. p. 201; Cowell. A tax. Du Cange.

Gabulum, Gabula. L. Lat. In old records. The head, end or extreme part of a house or building; the gable, or gable end. Kennett's Gloss. Cowell.

Rent paid In money. Seld. Tit. Hon. 321.

Lands held in entail by the caciques in Indian villages in Spanish America.—Bouvier Law Dictionary.

A term commonly applied to the territory acquired by the United States from Mexico by treaty of December 30, 1853, known as the Gadsden Treaty. It extended the southern boundary of

The payment of custom or tribute. Scott.

Property subject to the gaffoldglld or liable to be taxed. Scott.

Same as Gavel.

or GAFFOLDGILD. The. payment of rent or income. Gafolgild, payment of such rent, etc. Gafolland was land liable to tribute or tax (Cowell); or land rented (Saxon Diet.). See Tayl.

The payment of tribute.

Land liable to gafol-gild.

Something forced into one’s mouth to prevent outcry.

or GAGER (Law Lat. vadium). Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor as a security for the payment of his debt; a pledge or pawn (g. v.). Glanv. lib. 10,

ESTATES IN. Estates held in security, of which mortgages are the most common example.

Those held in vadio, or pledge. They are of two kinds: (1) Vivum vadium, or living pledge, or vifgage; (2) mortuum vadium, or dead pledge, better known as "mortgage."

To pledge; to wage; an officer charged with the duty of measuring the contents of casks.

When he who has distrained, being sued, has not delivered the cattle distrained, then he shall not only avow the distress, but gager de- G

One who had distrained and was sued, but had delivered the cattle distrained, was obliged not only to avow the distress but also to furnish pledge or surety to deliver them, or, as

Wager of law,

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

Fr. Gainery; busbandry. Kelham.

Fr. To till or cultivate; to obtain by husbandry. Kelham.

Profits. A mutual insurance company is an association for the purpose of "gain"; the reduction of a loss being a gain. 51 L. J. Ch. Div. 344.

Wainage, or the draught oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage. Also, the land tilled itself, or the profit arising from it. Old Nat. Brev. f

gain' simply refers to the excess of proceeds over cost or basis, and the phrase 'attributable to' merely confines consideration to that gain caused or generated by the property in

The term “gain corporation” means any corporation with a net unrealized built-in gain.

not a gain accruing to capital, nor a growth or increment of value in the investment, but a gain, a profit, something of exchangeable value proceeding from the property, severed fr

To obtain by husbandry. Oainure. Tillage. Oainery. Tillage or the profit therefrom or from the beasts used in it. Oaind, gaignent (que), who plough or till. fi AlNOR. One who occup

Tillage, or the profit of tillage. Blount. GAJUM (from gagium). In old European law. A thick wood. Spelman.

in addition to its share of investment income, 15 the "gross amount of premiums," § 809(c)(1).

The term “gain from the sale or exchange of capital assets” includes any gain so treated under section 1231.

In old English law. A soke-man; one who occupied or cultivated arable land. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.

the annual products or income of one's property or labor, or such gains or profits as may be realized from a business transaction begun and completed during the preceding year

A thick wood. Spelman.

In English law. The right to open and work a mine within the hundred of St. Briavels, or a stone quarry within the open lands of the forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. The peculia

A galley. Spelman.

In old Scotch law. A kind of compensation for slaughter. Bell, Diet.

Wales.

The term “Gallery” means the National Portrait Gallery established by this subchapter.

A kind of coin which, with suskins and doitkin's, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.

Gallyhalfpence. A kind of coin which, with suskins and dotkins, was prohibited by the statute 3 Hen. V. c. 1. 4 Bl. Com. 99. 3 Reeves' Hist. 261. Said to have been a Genoa coin, br

or GALLI HALFpence. A kind of coin which, with suskins and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1, 4 Bl. Comm. 99; 3 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 261.

A cock-shoot or cock-glade.

A liquid measure, containing two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts. The imperial gallon contains about 277 and the ale gallon 282 cubic inches.

The term “gallons per cycle” means, with respect to a dishwasher, the amount of water, expressed in gallons, required to complete a normal cycle of a dishwasher.

An erection on which to hang criminals condemned to death. GAM ACTA (Law Lat.) In old European law. A stroke or blow. L. Boior, tit. 2, c. 4; Spelman. GAMALIS (Law Lat.) In old Eur

A gallows.

Same as Gilravage.

I. Coke’s Institutes. Four volumes of commentaries upon various parts of the English law. Sir Edward Coke wrote four volumes of Institutes, as he was pleased to call them, though t

An assault; a battery.

A legitimate child; a child of betrothed parents.

To play any game of chance for a stake; to wager for a stake. See 113 Mass. 193, IS Am. Rep. 466.

One who follows or practices games of chance or skill, with the expectation and purpose of thereby winning money or other property. Buckley v. O'Niel, 113 Mass. 193, 18 Am. Rep. 46

but is not limited to pool-selling, bookmaking, maintaining slot machines, roulette wheels or dice tables, and conducting lotteries, policy, bolita or numbers games, or selling cha

One in which the parties in effect stipulate that they shall gain or lose upon the happening of an uncertain event in which they have no interest except that arising from the possi

The term “gambling device” means— (1) any so-called “slot machine” or any other machine or mechanical device an essential part of which is a drum or reel with insignia thereon, and

The term “gambling establishment” means any common gaming or gambling establishment operated for the purpose of gaming or gambling, including accepting, recording, or registering b

The term “gambling or animal racing property” means— (I) any equipment, furniture, software, or other property used directly in connection with gambling, the racing of animals, or

A policy of life insurance issued to one as beneficiary who has no interest in the life of the insured.

The term “gambling ship” means a vessel used principally for the operation of one or more gambling establishments. Such term does not include a vessel with respect to gambling aboa

A jury,s verdict reached after agreeing to leave it to some chance, as by tossing a coin, and so doing. See 83 Tenn. 133.

Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bac. Abr. See 11 Mete. (Mass.) 79. All sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. Wharton, Sports.

One employed to guard game in a preserve and against poachers.

Laws regulating the killing or taking of birds and beasts, as game. The English game laws are founded on the idea of restricting the right of taking game to certain privileged clas

One in which the result, as to success or failure, depends less upon the skill and experience of the player than upon purely fortuitous or accidental circumstances, incidental to t

A private park stocked with game for hunting.

To garnish.

contests, physical or mental, conducted according to set rules, undertaken for amusement or recreation or for winning a stake, requiring the participation of two or more persons.

articles or instrumentalities used in games or contest like the specific articles previously named in the section, which are used in games of tennis, polo, baseball, etc., all of w

Same as Gamekeeper.

A contract between two or more person Sf by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one may be the loser, and another the winner. T

See Wager.

See Gambling device .

One furnished with means and facilities for gambling to which the. public is tempted, invited or permitted to attend for the purpose of gambling. See 151 Mo. 566, 74 Am. St. Rep. 5

Houses kept for the purpose of permitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they pr

A room maintained for gambling or gaming.

One who garnishes.

In old European law. Murdered; secretly slain or made away with. Si servus furtivo modo, supradicto more occisus fuerit, et ita absconsus, quod gemurdrit dicunt; if a slave be secr

In Spanish law. Property held in community. The property of which it is formed belongs in common to the two consorts, and, on the dissolution of the marriage, is divisible between

See that title.

That which husband and wife, living together, acquire during matrimony, by a common title, lucrative or onerous; or those which husband and wife or either acquire by purchase, or b

(Spanish) Income of community property.

In Spanish law. Gains or profits resulting from the employment of property held by husband and wife in common, White, New Kecop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5.

Current as money.

Same as Gang-week.

Ofiicers in ancient times, whose business it was to examine weights and measures. Skene de Verb. Sign.

The term “gang-related offense” means an offense that involves the circumstances described in subparagraph (B) and that is— (i) a Federal or State felony involving a controlled sub

a member of a gang of roughs, hireling criminals, thieves, or the like.

The time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over by the parish officers, — rogation week. Enc. Lond.; Rapalje & L.

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attaching to the office of canon. Holthouse. 1 Man. dt Gr. 626.

A military punishment, in which the criminal running between the ranks receive? a lash from each man. Enc. Lond. This was called "running the gauntlett," the word itself being pron

Same as Gauntlet.

Same as Gauntlet.

This word, now generally written "jail" is said to be derived from the Spanish jaula, a cage (derived from caula); in French, geole, gaol. 1 Man. «& G. 222, note (a). A prison or b