Law Dictionary

In Louisiana. A term which signifies that a debtor, instead of paying a debt he owes in money, satisfies his creditor by giving in payment a movable or immovable. See "Dation en Pa

A ceremony by gift of finger rings by a barrister on being made a serjeant-at-law.

An agreement by which a creditor gives his debtor a delay or time in paying his debt beyond that contained in the original agreement. When other persons are responsible to him, eit

A little sword or dagger; a kind of sedge. Mat Paris.

Lat. A sword. An ancient emblem of defense. Hence the ancient earls or comites (the king's attendants, advisers, and associates in his government) were made by being girt with swor

A sword, lance or horseman's staff. One of the weapons allowed in a trial by combat.

In the civll law. Acorns or nuts of the oak or other trees. In a larger sense, all fruits of trees.

"J Holdsw. Hist. E. L. !M. "It is to my mind much t< and it is a regret which I believe every judge on the bench shares, that text-books are more and more Quoted in court — I mean,

The author of the treatise Be Angline, the most ancient book in the 1181, and containing the forms of writs

The author of the oldest treatise on English law, written in Latin, about A. D. 1181, under the title of Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (A Treatise of the Laws and

A term used in St 1 Jac. L c. 7, for wandering rogues or vagrants.

A hand dart. Cowell.

The term “gleaner” means an entity that— (A) collects edible, surplus food that would be thrown away and distributes the food to agencies or nonprofit organizations that feed the h

The act of gathering such grain in a field where it grew as may have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered. There is a custom in England, it is said, by which th

In the Civil Law. A turf, sod, or clod of earth; the soil or ground; cultivated land in general. In Old English Law. Church land

See "Adscriptlti."

Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell.

In Ecclesiastical Law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. 9 Cranch (U. S.) 329. In Civil Law. The soil

YVillein-socmen, who could not be removed from the lazd while they did the service due. Lract. c. 7; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 269.

In Saxon law. A fraternity.

The term “Global AIDS Coordinator” means the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally.

The term “Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development” means the public-private partnership that brings together leaders in health, science, philanthropy, and private industr

The term &quot;global catastrophic and existential threats&quot; means threats that with varying likelihood may produce consequences severe enough to result in systemic failure or

The term &quot;global catastrophic risk&quot; means the risk of events or incidents consequential enough to significantly harm or set back human civilization at the global scale.

“global change” means changes in the global environment (including alterations in climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological

“global change research” means study, monitoring, assessment, prediction, and information management activities to describe and understand— (A) the interactive physical, chemical,

The term “Global Food Security Strategy” means the strategy developed and implemented pursuant to section 9304(a) of this title .

The term “Global Fund” means the public-private partnership known as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria established pursuant to Article 80 of the Swiss Civil C

The term “global maritime distress and safety services” or “GMDSS” means the automated ship-to-shore distress alerting system which uses satellite and advanced terrestrial systems

In this section, the term &quot;global nuclear detection architecture&quot; means the global nuclear detection architecture developed under section 592 of this title.

The term “Global Tuberculosis Drug Facility (GDF)” means the new initiative of the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership to increase access to high-quality tuberculosis drugs to facilitate

Commissioners appointed to determine differences between scholars in a school or university and the townsmen of the place. Jacob.

Lat. In the civil law. A husband's sister. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.

A translation; an explanation; an interpretation.

A gloss.

A commentator or annotator of the Roman law. One of the authors of the Gloss.

It is a poisonous gloss which corrupts the essence of the text.

Statute of. See Costs.

STATUTE OF. An English statute, passed 6 Edw. I., A. D. 1278. So called because it was passed at Gloucester. There were other statutes made at Gloucester which do not bear this nam

A boxing or sparring exhibition, as distinguished from a prize-fight. See 46 La. Ann. 935, 24 L. R. A. 452, 15 South. 190.

Money given by the sheriff to certain court officers when there were no offenders left for execution.

In was an ancient custom on a maiden assize, when there was no offender to be tried, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. It is an immemorial custom to

Extraordinary rewards formerly given to oiflcers of courts, etc.; money formerly given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders are left for execution to the clerk of assiz

A hollow between two mountains; a valley or glen. Co. Litt. 5b.

The term &quot;GMD&quot; means a geomagnetic disturbance caused by a solar storm or another naturally occurring phenomenon.

The term “global maritime distress and safety services” or “GMDSS” means the automated ship-to-shore distress alerting system which uses satellite and advanced terrestrial systems

wardia, warda, I. I tection.

garentizare, I. I To warrant

gnerpy, I. fr. Abandoned; deserted.

gnarra, gwerra, wer Ta, /. L In old English law. War, either public or private.

L In old English law. A gulf, or deep pit of water.

curtesy of England. An estate to which a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in lands of which she was seised during cov-

To be dismissed from a court. To issue from a court "The court said a mandamus must go." 1 W. Bl. 50. "Let a supersedeas go." 5 Mod. 421. "The writ may go." 18 C. B. 35. —Go hail.

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callis describes goats as "usual engines erected and bullt with portcullises and do

To become surety in a bail bond.

When a prisoner is arraigned, he is asked, "How will you be tried?" He answers, "By God and my country." This practice arose when the prisoner had the right to choose the mode of t

An ecclesiastical fine.

In ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical or church fine imposed upon an offender for crimes and offenses committed against God.

That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob.

In old English law. Money given to bind a bargain; earnest-money. So called because such money was anciently given to God, — that is, to the church and the poor. See "Denarius Dei.

An old form of "cucking stool" (q. v.). Cowell.

To assume the responsibility of a surety on a bail-band.

To depart from the court; with the further implication that a suitor who is directed to "go hence" is dismissed from further attendance upon the court in respect to the suit or pro

To be discharged. See 40 Neb. 178, 58 N.W. 700.

A term applied to sheep. The “going” of 105 sheep with his master’s flock In a contract with a shepherd meant that the sheep should be pasture fed; Rex v. Inhabitants of Macton, 3

In the language of mariners and in the rules of navigation, a vessel is said to be going "before the wind" when the wind is free as respecte her course, that is, comes from behind

A business establishment which continues to transact its ordinary business, though it may be embarrassed, or even insolvent. 30 Fed. 865,

separate value that its trade routes may have must therefore result from the contribution to the earning capacity of the business of greater skill in management and more effective

The term “going Federal rate of interest” means “going Federal rate” as that term is defined in the United States Housing Act of 1937 [42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.].

Used of a vessel when she has a fair wind and her yards braced in; The Queen Elizabeth, 100 Fed. 874.

Having the wind course to either side, proceed straight forward or return to the point from which she started; Ward v. The Fashion, Fed. Cas. No. 17,165. It differs technically fro

The prevalent price ; the current market value of the article in question at the time and place of sale. Kelsea v. Haines, 41 N. H. 254.

The term “going private transaction” has the meaning given that term under the rules or regulations of the Commission issued pursuant to section 78m(e) of this title . / The term “

The act of the chief of an English common-law court in demanding of every member of the bar, in order of seniority, if he has anything to move. This was done at the sitting of the

When a party, under the common-law system of pleading, 'finished his pleading by the words, "and of this he puts himself upon the country," this was called "going to the country."

As applied to the property or plant of a manufacturing or industrial corporation. a public-service corporation, etc., this means the value which arises from having an established b

Not infrequently the value of these intangibles will be an aggregate made up of elements too deeply interpenetrated for any specific figure to be set opposite to one of them dissev

One who is going out of the jurisdiction of the court, although only into a state or country under the general sovereignty; as, for example, if he is going from one to another of t

Leopold. Glossary of French judicial terms. [In his work on the French Code of Commerce. 1 vol. 8vo. London, 1880.]

Lat. In old records. A sink or passage for water. 2 Mon. Angl. 610. CowelL

A mine. Blount. A sink or passage for water. Cowell.

Gold certificates under this legislation were required to be issued in denominations of dollars, and called for the payment of dollars. These gold certificates were currency. They

“gold clause” means a provision in or related to an obligation alleging to give the obligee a right to require payment in— (A) gold; (B) a particular United States coin or currency

The term “golden parachute payment” means any payment (or any agreement to make any payment) in the nature of compensation by any credit union for the benefit of any institution-af

In English law. Banker's notes. So called because the trades of banker and goldsmith were originally joined. Chit. Bills, 423.

Bankers' cash notes (i. e., promissory notes given by a banker to his customers as acknowledgments of the receipt of money) were originally called in London "goldsmiths' notes," fr

The term &quot;Gold Star Family member&quot; means an individual described in section 3.3 of Department of Defense Instruction 1348.36.

A mulct or flne in gold.

In Lat. A jester, buffoon or Juggler. Spelman, voc. "Gollar-densis."

In Hindu law. An agent; a steward; a confidential factor; a representative,

The account distinguished from an Month; Time; Year.

I. A putting together, or making up; composition or satisfaction; a statute or ordinance. Compositio mensurarum: the ordinance of measures; an ancient ordinance, mentioned in the s

I. To grant. Concessit (pi, concesserunt): granted. Goncessimus: allowed.

I. In old English patentes: a patentee.

In medical jurisprudence. A venereal disease, characterized by a purulent inflammation of the urethra.

The Gonzales decision, it is evident, turned on the Court's conclusion that the lawsuit was focused on purely internal union matters, i.e., on relations between the individual plai

In this section, the term &quot;good&quot; means any article, natural or manmade substance, material, supply, or manufactured product, including inspection and test equipment, and

See "Abearance."

Those qualified to serve on juries; that is, those of full age, citizens, not infamous or -rvon compos mentis; and they must be resident in the county where the venue is laid. Bac.

the time of capture, and not of condemnation.