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GROWTH STAGE

The third state in a life cycle when revenue raises fast and profits peak. The decline begins after this.

GUIDANCE DOCUMENT

Guidelines written to give broad advise on procedure instead of precise requirements and standards.

GAIN

Profits; winnings; increment of value. Gray v. Darlington, 15 Wall. 65, 21L. Ed. 45; Thorn v. De Breteuil, SO App. Div. 405, 83 N. Y. Supp. 840.

GANANCIAL PROPERTY

In Spanish law. A species of community in property enjoyedby husband and wife, the property being divisible between them equally on a dissolutionof the marriage. 1 Burge, Confl. Law, 418. See Cartwright

GAUGER

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws,appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, andother liquids, and to give them a mark of

GENERALE

The usual commons In a religious house, distinguished from pietan- tiw,which on extraordinary occasions were allowed beyond the commons. Cowell.Generale dictum generaliter est inter- pretandum. A general expression is to beinterpreted generally.

GEREFA

In Saxon law. Greve, reve, or reeve; a ministerial officer of high antiquityin England; answering to the grave or graf (gra/io) of the early continental nations. Theterm was applied to various grades

GLAIVE

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

GLOVES

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

GOOLE

In old English law. A breach in a bank or sea wall, or a passage worn by theflux and reflux of the sea. St. If! & 17 Car. II. c. 11.

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

In England, this term designates a school in which such instructionis given as will prepare the student to enter a college or university, and in thissense the phrase was used in the

GRATIFICATION

A gratuity; a recompense or reward for services or benefits, givenvoluntarily, without solicitation or promise.

GREENHEW

In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley.

GROOM PORTER

Formerly an officer belonging to the royal household. Jacob.

GUILLOTINE

An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of thedeath penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weightedknife-blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is made to

GAINAGE

The gain or profit of tilled or planted land, raised by cultivating it; and thedraught, plow, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser kind ofsoke men or

GANG-WEEK

The time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over bythe parish officers,

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