Law Dictionary

sax. & I. A price; fine; reward

In old English. Fineable, or liable to be mulcted, fined, or amerced at the discretion of the lord. Cowell. GERSUME (Saxon.) In old English law. Expense; reward; compensation; weal

In old English law. FExpense; reward; compensation; wealth. Itis also used for a fine or compensation for an offense. 2 Mon. Angl. 973. of his entertainment in another’s house. Twa

An exaction for permitting a tenant to transfer his tenancy; or a bonus paid for a rebate in rent on a lease.

GUST or GESTE. In Saxon law. A guest.

Plural of Gestum.

See "Period of Gestation." GESTIO (Lat.) In civil law. The doing or management of a thing. Negotiorum gestio, the doing voluntarily without authority business of another. De neg. g

In medical jurisprudence. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carries the embryo or fœtus in her uterus.

A guest.

An act; behavior.

Behavior as as by taking possession of title deeds, receiving rents, etc. Bell, Diet.

Behavior as heir. This expression was used in the Roman law, and adopted in the civil law and Scotch law, to denote conduct on the part of a person appointed heir to a deceased per

t Done; a thing done; a without words.

In civil law. One who acts for another, or transacts another's business. Calv. Lex. GESTUM (Lat.) In Roman law. A thing done; a transaction. Strictly, a thing done vdthout words, a

An agister.

An ancient and obsolete writ resorted to when a person's good bshavior was impeached. Lamb. Eir. 1. 4, c. 14.

A deed; an act; business.

Lat. [from gerere, to conduct; L. Fr. gest, gette.] In old English law. Behaviour; conduct. See De gestu et fama.

I. fr. To throw or cast; to

In old Scotch law. Gaolers. 1 Pitc. Grim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 234.

In Saxon law. The ancient convention of the people to decide a cause. Laws Aethel. c. 1. GEWITNESSA (Saxon). In Saxon and old English law. The giving of evidence. Laws Aethel. c. 2

in Saxon and old English law. The giving of evidence.

Acting as a witness.

In Saxon and old English law. The giving of evidence.

In Saxon law. Deeds or charters; writings. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 10.

In Saxon law. Deeds or charters; writings. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10.

In Saxon law. The ancient convention of the people to decide a cause.

An account or history of the descent of a person er family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession, Webst.

In pleading. A demurrer framed in general terms, without showing specifically the natnre of the objection, and which is usually resorted to where the objection is to matter of subs

Several distinct lots or pieces of Jand inclosed and fenced in a3 one common field. 14 Mass, 440.

A _ tenancy which is not fixed and made certain in point of duration by the agreement of the parties. 22 Ind. 122.

In old New York law. A court messenger or constable. O'Callaghan, New Neth. 322.

In Saxon law. A villein, or agricultural tenant, (villanus villicus;) a hind or farmer, (firmarius rusticus.) Spelman.

practice, is a writ which lies to replevy a man out of prison, or out of the custody of any private person, in the same manner which cattle taken in distress may be replevied, upon

A gallows.

Lynch law; in particular a custom anciently prevailing in the parish of Hallfax, England, by which the free burghers held a summary trial of any one accused of petit larceny, and,

The discharge of legal obligations—the payment for services rendered or consideration paid pursuant to a contract—is in no sense a gift. The case would be different if an award wer

contracts, is the act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possesderation. It differs from a grant, sale, or barter in this, that in each of these cas

The mere fact that the seller knew that he was selling to the maker of the bond as his only available market did not change the sale into a gift. In the absence of proof to the con

A stream of water. Blount.

The essence of a gift by trust is the abandonment of control over the property put in trust. The separable interests transferred are not gifts to the extent that power remains to r

gifts causa mortis, which are made in anticipation of impending death, are revocable, and are defeated if the donor survives the apprehended peril

The term “gift certificate” means an electronic promise that is— (i) redeemable at a single merchant or an affiliated group of merchants that share the same name, mark, or logo; (i

A typical 'gift enterprise' differs from this in that it involves the purchase of merchandise or other property; the purchaser receives, in addition to the merchandise or other pro

In its plan and scope the tax is one imposed on transfers at death or made in contemplation of death and is measured by the value at death of the interest which is transferred. One

The term “gift loan” means any below-market loan where the forgoing of interest is in the nature of a gift.

(Scotch) The crown’s gift of property of a bastard dying intestate and without heirs.

A voluntary and gratuitous transfer of a chattel or chose in action; which to be valid and binding, must either be accompanied by the solemnity of a deed, or by that of actual deli

In Swedish law. He who has a right to dispose of a woman in marriage. This right is vested in the father, if living; if dead, in the mother. They may nominate a person in their pla

In this section, the term “gift or donation” means any gift or donation of funds, materials (including research materials), real or personal property, or services (including lectur

Payments to Mrs. Pardee by the fiduciary were not necessarily made from income. The charge was upon the estate as a whole; her claim was payable without regard to income received b

Gifts, however, is a generic word of broad connotation, taking coloration from the context of the particular statute in which it may appear. Its plain meaning in its present settin

such gifts are motivated by the same considerations as lead to testamentary dispositions of property, and made as substitutes for such dispositions without awaiting death, when tra

is a gift made from one or more persons, without any prospect of immediate death, to one or more others. These gifts are so called to distinguish them from gifts causa mortis, (vid

The tax is a primary and personal liability of the donor, is an excise upon his act of making the transfer, is measured by the value of the property passing from the donor, and att

A gift of an aggregate sum to a body of persons, uncertain in number at the time of the gift, to be ascertained at a future time, and who are to take in equal or in some other defi

See "Guild."

See "Geldable."

In old English law. A his share.

A feast; a drinking bout.

guildable, geldable. In old or contributory; liable to pay tax

A mercantile company or corporation.

A gild merchant, or merchant gild; a gild, corporation, or company of merchants. 10 Coke, 30.

See "Guildhall." GILDA MERCATORIA (Law Lat.) A mercantile meeting. If the king once grants to a set of men to have gildam mercatoriam, a mercantile meeting or assembly, this is alo

gnildhalla, L I. In old behave or conduct; to act, strictly administer. Gerere pro hajrede: blood; of the nearest degree. law. A price, reward or sum of of goods; a fine or conside

A company of merchants. See Gilda mercatoria.

In Saxon law. Member of a gild or decennary. Oftener spelled "congildo." Du Cange; Spelman, "Geldum."

Lat. In old European law, A gild or company. Spelman, voc. Geldum, This word is of frequent occurrence in the laws of the Franks, Lombards, and other early nations of Europe. Id. i

In old English law. A rent nity. trirtll and sanctuary. In old Scots law. ers, where the murder was committed an^ in heat of passion.

certain payments to the crown from any Gild or fraternity.

Same as Gilravage.

A beguiler; a betrayer.

To ravage; to plunder.

The term “gilt” means a young female swine that has not produced a litter.

Gipwicus, Gippus. L. Lat. Ipswich, in England. 2 Ld, Raym, 1239. 2 Salk, 434.

or GIRANTE. In common law. An Italian word, which signifies the drawer. It is derived from girare, to draw, in the same manner as the English verb to murder is transformed into mur

A girth, or yard, is a measure of length. The word is of Saxon origin, taken from the circumference of the human body. Girth is contracted from girdeth, and signifies as much as gi

In Scotch law. A refuge or place of safety given to those who had slain a man in heat of passion (chaude melle), and unpremeditatedly. Abolished at the Reformation. 1 Hume, Hist. E

In this section, the term “GIS” means geographic information systems technology that facilitates the organization and management of data with a geographic component. / For purposes

Resting; lying.

Guisarmes. L. Fr. In old English statutes. A kind of axe or halbert; a bill. Stat. Winton, 13 £dw. I. Spelman.

A pledge.

Agistment; cattle taken in to graze at a certain price; also the money received for grazing cattle. Rapalje & L. GISER (Law Fr.) In old English law. To lie. Giser et mason, to lie

To lie; to rest.

An agister. See "Gisement."

An agister; a person who takes cattle to graze.

In Saxon law. A pledge. Fred-gisle, a pledge of peace. Qislehert, an lllus-trious pledge.

The pith; the principal point involved. See 127 Ala. 149, 28 South. 593.

Inold Englishlaw. Taxable, tributary, or contributory; liable to pay tax or tribute. Cowell; Bicunt.

A term used in deeds of conveyance. At common law, it implied a covenant. 2 Hilliard, Real Prop. 366. So in Kentucky. 1 Pirtle, Dig. 211. In Maryland and Alabama it is doubtful. 7

These words, in a will, import a benefit in point of right, to take effect upon the decease of the testator and proof of the will, unless it is made in terms to depend upon some co

To furnish or put in bail or security for one's appearance

To admit an apparent or colorable right in the opposite party. See Color.

To render, pronounce, or declare the judgment of the court in an action at law; not spoken of a judgment obtained by confession. Schuster v. Rader, 13 Colo. 329, 22 Pac. 505.

To communicate to another, in any proper or permissible legal manner, information or warning of an existing fact or state of facts or (more usually) of some intended future action.

He who makes a gift. By his gift the giver always impliedly agrees with the donee that he will not revoke the gift.

the power to compel the execution of handwriting exemplars.

an obligation to "create" a handwriting exemplar.

The act of a creditor in extending the time for the payment or satisfaction of a claim beyond the time stipulated in the original contract. If done without the consent of the suret

In the rules of navigation, one vessel is said to "give way" to another when she deviates from her course in such a manner and to such an extent as to allow the other to pass witho