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A servitude for the pasturage or passage of cattle. See Cattle-gate .

The term "gateway community" means a community that serves as an entry point, or is adjacent, to a recreation destination on Federal recreational lands and waters or non-

the first taking or the first retaining of possession of such gas for other processing or transmission whether through a pipeline, either common carrier or private, or otherwise af

The term "gathering line and associated field compression or pumping unit" means— (i) a pipeline that is installed to transport oil, natural gas and related constituents,

Inold English law. <A sokeman; one who occupied or cultivated arable land. Old Nat. Brey. fol. 12.

The term “GATT” means the GATT 1947 (as defined in section 3501(1)(A) of this title).

The term “GATT 1947” has the meaning given that term in section 3501(1)(A) of this title . / The term “GATT 1947” means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated October 30

The term “GATT 1994” has the meaning given that term in section 3501(1)(B) of this title . / The term “GATT 1994” means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade annexed to the WT

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

Double commons. A term used in the English universities. Wharton. GAUGEATOR (Law Lat.) In old English law. A ganger or gager. Cowell.

The measure of width of a rall-way, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet 8 inches in Great Britain and America, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland.

See Gager .

An officer appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure

The measure of a barrel or cask.

A military punishment by running between two ranks of men and being lashed by each.

In old English law. Tribute; toll; custom; yearly revenue, of which there were formerly various kinds. Jacob; Tayl. Hist. Gavelkind, 26, 102. See "Gabel."

In English Iaw._ Rent re-

In English Law. Rent reserved in bread, corn, or provision; rent payable in kind. Cowell.

A certain meastire of rent ale. Cowell.

Held by gavelkind tenure.

A customary process, whereby the lord of lands in gavelkind might seize the land in the nature of a distress, to be returned to the tenant in case he paid the rent. Crabb, Hist. En

Statute of. The statute of 10 Edw. 11. by which the proceeding by gavelet, or a similar proceeding, was extended to the city of London, and the law on that subject otherwise modifi

Yearly profit, toll, or tribute; the subject thereof.

That which yields annual profit or toll. The tribute or toll itself. Cowell; Du Cange.

A customary service of ploughing. Du Cange.

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

Tenants who paid a reserved rent, besides some customary duties to be done by them. Cowell.

The tenure by which almost all lands in England were held prior to the Conquest, and which is still preserved in Kent. All the sons of a tenant of gavelkind lands take equally, or

An officer of the English crown having the general management of the mines, pits, and quarries in the forest of Dean and hundred of St. Briavels, subject, in some respects, to the

A tenant who is liable to tribute. Somn. Gavelkind, p. 33; Blount. Gavelingmen were tenants who paid a reserved rent, besides customary service, Cowell.

A tenant liable to the payment of gavel or tribute. Somn. Gavelkind, 23.

A customary service of mowing meadow land or cutting grass (consuetudo faleandi). Soran. Gavelkind, Append.; Blount. bid or command of the lord. Somn. Gavelkind, 19, 21; Cowell.

The service of reaping at the command of the lord.

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

A customary service, either manuopera, by the person of the tenunt, or car7opera, by lis carts or carriages. Blornt; Somn. Gavelkind, 24; Du Cange.

or GAVELWEEK. A customary service, either manuopera, by the person of the tenant, or carropera, by his carts or carriages. Phill. Purv.; Blount; Somn. Gavelkind, 24; Du Cange.

(L. Fr.) Plough tackle, or implements of Husbandy; wainage, Kelham.

Fr. To till or cultivate. Si tu ^aynes ma terre sauns man conge; if you till my land without my leave. BritU c. 54. To gain. Put gayner ne per perdre; to gain nor to lose. Id, c. 1

Fr. Acquisition. Britt, c. 63. GE, Oie, Gi. L. Fr. I. Kelham. Corrupt forms of Jeo,

The official newspaper of the English government. It is published twice each week, and contains all the acts of state and proclamations, and also dissolutions of partnership and no

False grammar (syntax) alone never invalidates written instruments: falsa, or mala, grammatica non vitiat chartam. See Blank, 2; Punctuation.

In the civil law. An institution or hospital for taking eare of the old. Cod. 1, 3, 46, 1; Calvin.

437. The principle of the exclusion of such admissions, whether verbal or documentary, therefore, seems to rest on the fact that there is some matter in controversy or some claim b

See Chinese. GEBOCIAN (from Sax. boc). To convey boc land, — the grantor being said to gebocian the grantee of the land; 1 Reeves, Hist. Eng. Law 21. See Du Cange, Liber; Bocland;

sax. In Saxon law. Neighborhood or adjoining district.

Conveyed.—Black.

To convey.

In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer boc land, (book-land or land held by charter.) The grantor was said to gebo-dan the alienee. See 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10.

One owning an allotment of land.

or GEBURSCRIPT. Neighborhood or adjoining district. Cowell.

A village.

In old English law. A country neighbor; an inhabitant of the same geburscip or village. Cowell. GELD (from Saxon gildan; Law Lat. geldum). A payment; tax; tribute. Laws Hen. I. c.

Lat. In old Engligh law. The executor of a last will and testament. Cowell.

A general de money (that is, a like sum] is to be returned. It is equivalent to a lean, and the money deposited becomes the property of the depositary. 43 Ala. 188.

In old Scotch law. GQaolers. 1 Pite. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 234.

Fr. [from gainer, to plow.] In Norman law. A husbandm&n or cultivator of the soil. Grand Custum, c. 32.

In medical jurisprudence. Concealment of pregrnancy or delivery. Dungl. Med. Diet.

A fine; a tribute.

Taxable.—Black.

Taxable.

Liable to be ta Sed. 1 Poll. & Maitl. 652; Kelham. GEMOT (gemote, or mote; Sax., from gemeltand, to meet or assemble; L. Lat. gemotum). An assembly; a mote or moot, meeting or publ

A castrated horse (see 2 Tex. App. 293), but not a mule. See 4 Pa. Diet. R. 172.

Geltum, Geldus, L. Lat. In old English law. Geld, or gild. Spelman, See Geld,

Lat. In old records. A bundle or sheaf of grain. Spelman,

Gems.

Gentlewoman. Cowell; 2 Inst. 668.

or GEMOTE. (Saxon, from gemettand, to meet or assemble; Law Lat. gemotum). An assembly; a mote or moot, meeting, or public assembly. The folcgemot, or general assembly of the peopl

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

A meeting or assembly.

Lat. [Sax. gemote, mote.] In Saxon law. A public meeting, or court. Si quis gemotum, id est placitum, supersedeat ter, &c.; if any one shall absent himself from court three times,

See Man. In the Revised Statutes, and in acts and resolutions of Congress, passed subsequently to February 25, 1871, ■words imparting the masculine gender may be applied to females

In this section, the term “gender analysis”— (1) means a socioeconomic analysis of available or gathered quantitative and qualitative information to identify, understand, and expla

the term “gender identity” means actual or perceived gender-related characteristics; and / The term “gender identity” has the meaning given the term in section 249(c) of title 18 .

The term &quot;gender parity in basic education&quot; means that girls and boys have equal access to quality basic education.

the term &quot;gender-specific services&quot; means services designed to address needs unique to the gender of the individual to whom such services are provided; / The term &quot;g

The summary history or table of a house or family, showing how the persons there named are connected together.

The head of a family. Rapalje & L. GENEATH (Saxon.) In Saxon law. A villein, or agricultural tenant {villanus villicus); a hind or farmer; (firmarius rusticus). Spelman. GENER (Lat

A vassal.

A son-in-law.

Pertaining to or designating, the genus or class, as distinguished from that which characterizes the species or individual. Universal, not particularized; as opposed to special. Pr

43 U.S.C. § 666 does not cover consent by the United States to be sued in a private suit to determine its rights against a few claimants

One who administers the whole of a decedent’s estate either under a statute of distribution or under a will. See 40 Ala. 189.

Where the tax is laid generally on all property or all real property within the taxing unit, it does not become arbitrary or discriminatory merely because it is spread over such pr

A person who fs authorized by his principal to execute all deeds, sign all contracts, or purchase all goods, required in a particular trade, business, or employment. Story, Ag. § 1

Authority to make purchases from any persons with whom the agent may choose to deal, or to make an indefinite number of purchases, is a general agency. The distinction between the

An agent who is authorized to do all acts connected with a particular business or in a particular place. See 157 111. 554, 48 Am. St. Rep. 341, 41 N. E. 888.

The term “General Agreement on Trade in Services” means the General Agreement on Trade in Services (referred to in section 3511(d)(14) of this title ).

The charter of a corporation is its general" franchise, while a "special" franchise consists in any rights granted by the public to use property for a public use but with private p

Where issues of fact in a case are submitted to the court by consent of parties to be tried without a jury, the "finding" is the decision of the court as to the disputed facts, and

In marine insurance a general insurance is effected when the perils insured against are such as the law would imply from the nature of the contract considered in itself and supposi

A power is general when it authorizes the alienation in fee, by means of a conveyance, will, or charge, of the lands embraced in the power to any alienee whatsoever. It is special

A general power is in trust when any person or class of persons other than the grantee of such power ls designated as entitled to the proceeds or any portion of the proceeds or oth

An appearance without reservation or qualification. See Appearance .

The decisions of this court have uniformly been that an appearance cures any defect in the service of process; and there is nothing to distinguish this case from the general doctri

COURT OF. See CouET of Appraisers of the United States.

A name given in some of the states to the senate and house of representatives, which compose the legislative body.

A debtor’s transfer of all his property in trust for the benefit of all of his creditors. See 85 N. Y. 516, 39 Am. Rep. 674.

Same as Indebitatus Assumpsit.

that liability arises not from contract but from participation in the common venture... its extent in the absence of such limiting clauses is, under the admiralty rule, fixed by th