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Category: G

GENERAL DAMAGES

These are the damages and injuries that directly result from an action or the failure to take action of the defendant.

GRADED OFFENSE

crime that is given a greater punishment than is ordinarily given out.

GENERAL ASSETS

This term applies to the money and property available and the assets in hand that can be used to pay an outstanding debt.

GO QUIT

a term that means to be declared innocent, be exonerated and to be dismissed.

GIFT CAUSA MORTIS

a Latin phrase meaning the gift of personal property that is given to a person before the other has died, though he is expected to die.

GO WITHOUT DAY

This phrase means to be dismissed by the court without any instructions to return.

GIFT IN TRUST

a term used that describes a gift of property that comes without the title. This means that the person can’t sell or hand the property on.

GIVE TIME

This phrase means to extend the time the payment of a debt is due.

GENERAL DEVISE

a term given to the gift that is given in a will that is limited to real estate but can include property also.

GUILTY KNOWLEDGE

This term is used when you know that an unlawful situation exists but you choose to ignore, such as accepting goods you know are stolen.

GIVE NOTICE

The term used when a person is informed that a suit is about to take place.

GOOD REPUTE

This term is given to a person with a good reputation and known to honest, true and forthright.

GAME LAWS

These are the laws that have been passed in order to preserve wildlife.

GO IN EVIDENCE

This term applies to things that go in evidence when it has been presented and accepted to be evidence at a trial.

GUEST STATUTE

This laws is seen in some states where a passenger in a friends car cannot sue to driver for an accident unless unusual negligence is the cause.

GROUND FOR DISBARMENT

This term applies to an attorney’s misconduct that may see him lose his license to practice law.

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