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A lord who was entitled to the guardianship of the minor heir of his tenant by knight service. See 16 Fed. Cas. (U. S.) 1171, 3 Cranch C. C. 147.

One next of kin to a child from whom it was impossible for the former to inherit, as guardian of the socage land and person of the child, until the child was fourteen. See 2 Wend.

Atthe common law, this was a species of guardian who had the custody of lands coming to the infant by descent, as also of the infant’s person, until the latter reached the age of f

See "Warden of the Cinque Ports."

A warden or conservator of the peace. Rapalje & L.

In English law. A person acting as overseer of a parish in matters relating to the management and relief of the poor.

In English ecclesiastical law. The person to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese is committed during the vacancy of the see. Cowell; Blount.

The person to whose custody a vacant see or abbey was committed by the king, who, as steward of the goods and profits there-, of, was to give an account to the escheator, and he in

A magistrate who has the jurisdiction of the ports or havens which are calied the "Cinque Porte," (q. v.) This office was first created in England, in imitation of the Roman policy

The term “guardianship” means— (A) the process by which a State court determines that an adult individual lacks capacity to make decisions about self-care or property, and appoints

Same as Conservators of the peace.

The board or body in charge of the paupers of a county.

or GARDIANUS. A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman; 3 Salk. 176.

Same as Gardianus.

As used in this chapter, “guards” means— (1) maintenance guards who, on the effective date of this chapter, are in key position KP–5 under the provisions of former section 3514 of

In Spanish law. A term applicable to the contract or writing by which courts of justice are empowered to execute and carry into effect a contract in the same manner as if it were d

in Old European Law. A provision of necessary things. Spel. Gloss.

War.

One who had the custody of the royal mansions. Rapalje & L. GUBERNATOR (Lat.) A pilot of a ship.

A helmsman; a pilot.

Pertaining to the office of a governor.

In military law. An independent body of marauders or armed men, not regularly or organically connected with the armies of either belligerent, who carry on a species of irregular wa

Abandoned.

In Fr. Abandoned; left; deserted. Britt c. 33.

GUARRA, or GUERRE. War, either public or private. Spelman. GUERRILLA PARTY (Span, gu&rra, ■war; guerrilla, a little war). In military law. Self-constituted sets of arm^d men, in ti

War. Spelman.

War.

Gurre, Gtoer, Gere. L. Fr. War. Kelham.

Lat. [from guerra, war.] Of, or relating to war; warlike; hostile. Spelman, voc. Guerra.

A traveler who stays at an inn from day to day, for pay, and without a special contract to board for any definite time. If he is invited as a friend by the innkeeper, he is not a "

or GEST TAKER. An agister.

In old French law. Watch. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 6.

In Spanish law. A right of way for narrow carts. White, New Recop. lib. 2, c. 6, § 1.

In old law. That which was given for safe conduct through a strange territory, or another's territory. Cowell. The office of guiding of travelers through dangerous and unknown ways

The term “guidance” means any significant written guidance of general applicability prepared by the Administrator.

The term “guidance counselor” means an individual who works with at-risk youth on a one-on-one basis, to establish a supportive relationship with such at-risk youth and to provide

The term “Guidance for Controlling Asbestos-Containing Material in Buildings”, means the Environmental Protection Agency document with such title as in effect on March 31, 1986.

The term “guideline level premium” means the level annual amount, payable over the longest period permitted under the contract (but ending not less than 20 years from date of issue

The term “guideline premium limitation” means, as of any date, the greater of— (i) the guideline single premium, or (ii) the sum of the guideline level premiums to such date. / The

Guideline Not Expressed as a Range.—For the purpose of this section, the term "guideline range" includes a guideline range having the same upper and lower limits.

the guidelines promulgated by the commission pursuant to 994(a)." 28 U.S.C.

The term “guideline single premium” means the premium at issue with respect to future benefits under the contract (without regard to any qualified additional benefit), and with res

An iron or steel plate to be attached to a rail for the purpose of guiding to their place on the rali wheels thrown off the track. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1291.

An old French work on insurance, more commonly known as Le Chidon, (q. V.) GUIFARK Guii^re, Muifare, Wi-

The name of a treatise on maritime law, written in Rouen — ^then Normandy — in 1671, as is supposed. It was received on the continent of Europe almost as equal in authority to one

or GILD. A brotherhood or company governed by certain rules and orders made among themselves by king's license; a guild, the members pay an assessment, or tax (gild) towards defray

The hall or place of meeting of a gulid or glld. The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. The mercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are sup

(Law Lat. gildhalla, variously spelled ghildhalla, guihalla, guihaula; from Saxon gild, payment, company, and halla, hall). A place in which are exposed goods for sale. Charter of

The sittings held In the Guildhall of the city of London for city of London cases.

An association of traders within a town in England, and in some cases living outside its precincts, for the better management of trade. It somethe town; 1 Holdsw. Hist E. L. 310. S

Bents payable to the crown by any guild, or such as formerly belonged to religious guilds, and came to the crown on the dissolution of the monasteries. Toml.

An apparatus for beheading criminals with a single blow, used in some countries, as France and Greece, for capital punishment. A form of it was in use in the middle ages, but, bein

In criminal law. That which renders criminal and liable to punishment. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of inn

The statute quite literally establishes guilt by association alone, without any need to establish that an individual's association poses the threat feared by the Government in pros

the same thing when applied to general arrangements in § 366, to real property arrangements in § 472, and to compositions and extensions in § 656.

A defendant who enters such a plea simultaneously waives several constitutional rights, including his privilege against compulsory self-incrimination, his right to trial by jury, a

while most pleas of guilty consist of both a waiver of trial and an express admission of guilt, the latter element is not a constitutional requisite to the imposition of criminal p

Possession of the fruits of crime, recently after its commission, justifies the inference that the possession is guilty possession, and, though only prima facie evidence of guilt,

A coin Issued by the l Engllsh mint during the time of Wm. IV. These coins were called in. The word now means

if it is clear that under no circumstances could the Government ultimately prevail, the central purpose of the Act is inapplicable and, under the Nut Margarine case, the attempted

See Explosion; Police, 3.

A collection of Scandinavian customs in force in the southern part of Norway. The Froata-thing was in force in the more northerly division of Dronheim. They are said to help to an

The first of August, the same as St. Peter's Day ad Vincula. Cowell.

The heraldic name of the color usually called “red.” The word is derived from the Arabic word “gule,” a rose, and was probably introduced by the Crusaders. Gules is denoted in engr

the term “Gulf Coast region” means— (A) in the Gulf Coast States, the coastal zones (as that term is defined in section 1453 of title 16 ), 1 except that, in this section, the term

the term “Gulf Coast State” means any of the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas; and

The terms “area affected by a Gulf hurricane disaster” and “Gulf hurricane disaster” have the meanings given such terms in section 209 of the Higher Education Hurricane Relief Act

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “Gulf Opportunity housing amount” means, for any calendar year, the amount equal to the product of $18.00 multiplied by the portion of th

The terms “Gulf Opportunity Zone” and “GO Zone” mean that portion of the Hurricane Katrina disaster area determined by the President to warrant individual or individual and public

For purposes of this subsection, the term “Gulf Opportunity Zone public utility casualty loss” means any casualty loss of public utility property (as defined in section 168(i)(10))

The term "Gulf reef fish" means any fish chosen by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council that is in the reef Fishery Management Plan for the purposes of this chap

The term “Gulf tax credit bond” means any bond issued as part of an issue if— (i) the bond is issued by the State of Alabama, Louisiana, or Mississippi, (ii) 95 percent or more of

“Gum rosin” means rosin remaining after the distillation of gum spirits of turpentine.

“Gum spirits of turpentine” means spirits of turpentine made from gum (oleoresin) from a living tree.

A conspiracy in 1605 to blow up the king and parliament to avenge anti-Catholic legislation.

Gurges, a deep pit of water, a gors or gulf, consisteth of water and land; and therefore by the grant thereof by that name the soil doth pass. In Domesday it is called guort, gort,

Wears. Jacob.

In Scotechlaw. Curteasy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court. subtle] and captious interpretation is repro- S8t.5 & 6 Wm. TV. c. 82. Spence, Eq. Jur

GEST. (Sax.) In old English law. A guest; a person who lodged a second night with another was so called, among the ancient Saxons.

Lat. A keeper, or protector. See injfra. A guardian. Bract, fol. 87, 161. Co, Litt. 76 a.

Lat. In English practice. Keeper of the writs. A principal clerk belonging to the courts of king's Bench and Common Pleas, whose office was to receive and keep all the writs, retur

Lat. In English ecclesiastical law. Keeper of the temporalities. He to whose custody a vacant see or abbey was committed by the king, as supreme lord; who, as a steward of the good

Jutes; one of the three nations who migrated from Germany to Britain at an early period. According to Spelman, they established themselves chiefly in Kent and the Isle of Wight. ab

3, V. To rid land of its superfluous moisture, by deepening, straightening, or embanking the natural water-courses, and supplementing them, when necessary, by artificial ditches."

The diminutive of a sewer. Callis, Sew. (80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or cenduit designed to allow the passage of water from one point to another in a certain direction,

The chief conspirator of the Gunpowder plot.

brit. Maid's fee; a payment made to the lord of the marriage or incontinency of the daughter H.

A fee paid to the lord upon the loss of maidenhood, by marriage or otherwise, of a tenant's daughter.

Maid’s fee. An old English phrase signifying a customary fine payable to lords of some manors on marriage of tenant’s daughter, or otherwise on her incontinence. Cowell, Marchet.

brit. Maid's fee; a payment or fine made to the lords of some manors in England, upon the marriage of their tenant's, daughters, or otherwise on their committing incontinency.

A place of execution.

Waif. Par. Ant. ell. on marriage local court of the hundred of Pathbew, in otherwise on her Warwickshire. GYLTWITE (Saxon). Compensation for place of execu- fraud or trespass. (Jra

See Drain. An ordinance requiring lot-owners to keep the " gutters " opposite their premises in good repair, and free from obstructions, was held to refer to the ordinary open gutt

Uncompensated, unpaid for, unavenged. From the participle of exclusion, o, œ or ex, (Goth.,) and gild, payment, requital. Anc. Inst. Eng.

The name of a court which was held every three weeks in the liberty or hundred of Pathbew in Warwick. Jacob.

Amends for fraud or trespass.

A government in which a p. 196; Cow- woman holds, or is capable of holding, the position or chief executive. H is sometimes used in some Law Latin words in which it is more general

Government by a woman; a state in which women are legally capable of the supreme command; e. g., in Great Britain and Spain.

Wandering monks.

Shackles.