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GUEST LAW

A law limiting the passenger rights in an automobile to get a refund from the drivers based on negligence. Negligence has to be proven to get the funds.

GUARENTIGIO

In Spanish law. A written authorization to a court to enforce theperformance of an agreement in the same manner as if it had been decreed uponregular legal proceedings.

GUIDON DE LA MER

The name of a treatise on maritime law, by an unknownauthor, supposed to have been written about 1071 at Rouen, and considered, incontinental Europe, as a work of high authority.

GYLTWITE

Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell.

GAGE

v. In old English law. To pawn or pledge; to give as security for a payment orperformance; to wage or wager.

GAMBLE

To game or play at a game for money. Buckley v. O’NIel, 113 Mass. 193,18 Am. Rep. 406. The word “gamble” is perhaps the most apt and substantial to convey the idea

GASTINE

L. Fr. Waste or uncultivated grouud. Britt. c. 57.

GENEATH

In Saxon law. A villeiu, or agricultural tenant, (villunus villicus;) a hind orfarmer, (firmarius rusticus.) Spelman.

GENUINE

As applied to notes, bonds, and other written instruments, this termmeans that they are truly what they purport to be, and that they are not false, forged,fictitious, simulated, spurious, or counterfeit. Baldwin

GIEBET

A gallows; the post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which theirbodies are exposed. It differs from a common gallows, in that it consists of one perpendicularpost, from the top of

GIVING RINGS

A ceremony anciently performed in England by serjeants at law atthe time of their appointment. The rings were inscribed with a motto, generally in Latin.

GLOSSATOR

In the civil law. A commentator or annotator. A term applied to theprofessors and teachers of the Roman law in the twelfth century, at the head of whomwas Irnerius. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

GONORRHCEA

In medical Jurisprudence. A venereal disease, characterized by apurulent inflammation of the urethra.

GRAFT

A term used In equity to denote the confirmation, by relation back, of theright of a mortgagee in premises to which, at the making of the mortgage, themortgagor had only an imperfect

GRASS WEEK

Rogation week, so called anciently in the inns of court and chancery.

GREEK KALENDS

A colloquial expression to signify a time indefinitely remote, therebeing no such division of time known to the Greeks.

GROG-SHOP

A liquor saloon, barroom, or dram-shop ; a place where intoxicatingliquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. E. 602.

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