Law Dictionary

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

Lat. In old English law. A gaol. Bract. fol. 100, 110. Ad gaolam deliberandam; ad gaolas deliberandas; for delivering a gaol or gaols. Id. ibid. Reg. Jud. 30. Committatur gaolae de

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

The trial and disposition of all the prisoners in a jail.

Fr. In old English law. A gaol. Envoye a nostre gaole; sent to our gaol. Britt. c. 15. Le pleyntyfe soit mys en la gaole, et illonqspuny par prison et par Jin; the plaintiff shall

The keeper of a gaol or prison; one who has the legal custody of the place where prisoners are kept. It is his duty to keep the prisoners in safe custody, and for this purpose he m

(fee. See De clerico convicto, <fec. CLERICO INFRA SACROS OR-

or GAOL LIMITS. A space, marked out by limits, which is considered as a part of the prison, and within which prisoners are allowed to go at large on giving security to return. Owin

A district around a gaol, defined by limits, within which prisoners are allowed to go at large on giving security to return. It is considered a part of the gaol.

Same as Gaol liberties.

In old English law and practice. A taking orseizure; arrest; receiving; holding of court.

or GARANTIA (Law Lat.) A warranty. Spelman. GARATHINX (Lomb.) In old Lombardic law. A gift; a free or absolute gift; a gift of the whole of a thing. Spelman.

A warranty. Spelman.

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.

Garandia, Garantum. L. Lat. [In English law, tvarrantia, toarrantum; Lomb. toarens; Sax. spec, toarenda, warendatio: all from the Sax. weeren, to keep or protect.] In Norman law. A

In French law, this word corresponds to warranty or covenants for title in English law. In the case of a sale this garantie includes two things: (1) Peaceful possession of the thin

A gift.

A warranty.

To warrant.

A warrantor or vouchee, who is obliged by his warranty {garaurvtie) to warrant (garaunter) the title of the warrantee (garaunte), that is, to defend him in his seisin, and if he do

A sheaf of grain.

the term “garbage” means all waste material derived in whole or in part from the meat of any animal (including fish and poultry) or other animal material, and other refuse of any c

In Scotch law. Tithes of corn, (grain.) Bell.

Tithes of grain.

A sheaf of arrows, containing twenty-four, Otherwise called “sehajfa sayittarum.” Skene,

In old English statutes. To sort or cull out the good from the bad in spices, drugs, etc. Cowell; Blount.

An ancient officer in the city of London, who might enter into any shop, warehouse, etc., to view and search drugs and spices, and garble and

The practice of taking out good coins for melting and keeping the worn ones in circulation.

Servants who follow a camp. Wals. 242.

Groom of the stole,

A ward of a city.

Custody; ward; care or keeping.

A guardian. Britt. c. 35, 81. Used as an English word in Co. Litt. 38b.

A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers. A garden is a parcel of a house, and passes with it. 2 Coke, 32; Plowd. 171; Co. Litt. 5b, 56a, 56b. But see P. Moore,

See Agriculture. GAIlin:SH.3 1. To warn, make aware, notify. 2. To attach property or a debt due or belonging to a defendant. Garnishee. One warned by legal process in respect to t

Fr. To keep. Sauvemmt gardes; safely kept. Britt. c. 87.

Fr. A guardian. Britt. c. 35. See Gardein. A garden. Britt, c. 53.

L. Fr. Custody; wardship.

A guardian; a warden.

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

A garden.

It. Fr. Wardship; care; custody; also the ward of a city.

A warren, which see.

Fr. A warren; a privileged place for keeping animals.

A sheaf of arrows, containing twenty-four. Otherwise calied "schaf-fa sagittarum." Skene.

state courts must defer to the exclusive competence of the National Labor Relations Board in cases in which the activity that is the subject matter of the litigation is arguably su

Fr. [from garner, q. v.] Furniture; clothing; a garment. Obligacion doit estre vestue de v. maneres de garnementz; obligation may be clothed in five kinds of garments. Britt. c. 28

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

In Old English Law. Victuals, arms, and other implements of war, necessary for the defence of a town. Mat. Par. 1250. See Gabnistuba.

In English Law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners on his entrance into prison. To warn. To garnish the heir is to warn the heir. Obsolete. In Practice. To attach by

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

As a general rule, a garnishee is not bound to pay interest, because he is liable to be called on to pay at all times.

A proceeding by which the creditor takes the debtor’s position with respect to the latter’s debtor, the garnishee. See 31 Kan. 180, 47 Am. Rep. 497, 1 Pac. 622.

Same as Garnishment.

Fr. To warn or summon. Kelham.

Same as garnishment.

any legal or equitable procedure through which the earnings of any individual are required to be withheld for payment of any debt.

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person not to pay money or deliver property to another, but to appear and answer a plaintiff creditor's suit. Cowell. Blount, voc. Garn

Substituted service on a nonresident by publication furnishes no legal basis for a judgment in personam. But garnishment or foreign attachment is a proceeding quasi in rem. The thi

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the fortification of a city or campj or for the ornament of a thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Cange; Cowell; Blount.