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Same as Garrote.

A warrant.

Fr. To warrant. Co. Litt, 365 a. See Garaunter,

A warranty.

I. fr. A warrantor, or person called

Fr. A warrantor, or person called upon to warrant. Stat. Gloc. c. 12.

garrantir, I. fr. To warrant

A warren.

Garren, Garreyn. L. Fr. A warren; a place for keeping and preserving animals. Britt, c* 33, 42, 53. Kelham. See Garene.

A capital punishment for crime in some countries by strangulation with an iron collar compressed by means of a screw, or by severing the spinal cord in like manner.

A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practised in Spain. Portugal, and some Spanish-American countries, consisting in strangulation by means of an iron c

In old English law. A fine or

In old English law. An amerciament or flne. Cowell.

In old English law. An amerciament or fine. Cowell. See "Gressume"; "Grossome"; "Gersume."

See "Knights of the Garter."

not a member of the college. Scotland is placed under an officer called "Lyon King-at-Arms," and Ireland is the province of one named "Ulster." Wharton.

In English Law. A yard; a little close or homestead in the north of England. Cowell; Blount. A dam or wear in a river, for the catching of fish. Id.

I. fr. Furniture; clothing; a

In old Scotch law. Warder. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 8.

“gas” means natural gas, flammable gas, or toxic or corrosive gas;

Gasachms. (L. Lat.) In old European law. An adversary in a cause. L. Salic, tit. 52, § 2. Spelman.

See Monopoly; Police, 2. '

The term “gas consumer” means any person, State agency, or Federal agency, to which natural gas is sold other than for purposes of resale.

(Carbon Monoxide, Chlorine). Irritant* poisons, when taken in ordinary doses, occasion speedily violent vomiting and purging, preceded, accompanied, or followed by intense pain in

The term “gaseous diffusion plants” means the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant at Paducah, Kentucky and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant at Piketon, Ohio.

The term “gasification technology” means any process which converts a solid or liquid product from coal, petroleum residue, biomass, or other materials which are recovered for thei

Gasindius. L. Lat. [from Fr. case, a house, and Sax. hynde, a servant.] In old European law. A house or domestic servant. Marculf. lib. 2, form. 26. Spelman. A family or household,

The term “gasoline”— (A) includes any gasoline blend, other than qualified methanol or ethanol fuel (as defined in section 4041(b)(2)(B)), partially exempt methanol or ethanol fuel

For purposes of subparagraph (B)(i), the term “gasoline blend stock” means any petroleum product component of gasoline.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “gasoline gallon equivalent” means, with respect to any nonliquid alternative fuel, the amount of such fuel having a Btu content of 124,80

“gas pipeline facility” includes a pipeline, a right of way, a facility, a building, or equipment used in transporting gas or treating gas during its transportation;

Waste, which see.

A steward or bailiff. Spelman. Also applied to higher officers, as a governor of a city. In the book of feuds it seems to have been used in the sense of "warden." GASTINE (Law Fr.)

A temporary governor of the country. Blount A steward or bailiff. Spel. Gloss. G AST EL (L. Fr.). Wastel; wastelbread; the finest kind of wheat bread. Britt c. 80; Kelham. 6A8TINE

L. Fr. Wastel; wastel bread; the finest sort of wheat bread. Britt, c. 30; Kelham.

I. I In old law. A castle; a fortified place.

To waste.

Waste land.

The term “gas utility” means any person, State agency, or Federal agency, engaged in the local distribution of natural gas, and the sale of natural gas to any ultimate consumer of

The term “gas utility company” means any company that owns or operates facilities used for distribution at retail (other than the distribution only in enclosed portable containers

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.