Category: G

A voluntary association of persons pursuing the same trade, art, profession,or business, such as printers, goldsmiths, wool merchants, etc., united under a distinctorganization of their own. analogous to that of a corporation,

Government by a woman; a state in which womenare legally capable of the supreme command; e. g., in Great Britain and Spain.

In old English law. When he who has distrained, being sued, has not delivered the cattle distrained,then he shall not only avow the distress, but gagcr dclivcrance, i. e., put insurety or

1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon,Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (inEngland) hares, pheasants, partridges,

L. Fr. Wardship; care; custody; also the ward of a city.

The measure of width of a railway, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet8% inches in Great Britain and America, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland.

Lat. In the civil law. A son- in-law ; a daughter’s husband. (Filia: vir.) Dig. 38, 10, 4, 0.

In the civil law. A general class or division, comprising several species. Intoto jure generi per speciem derogatur, et illud potissimum habetur quod ad speciemdirectum est, throughout the law, the species takes

Lynch law; In particular a custom anciently prevailing in the parish ofHalifax, England, by which the free burghers held a summary trial of any one accusedof petit larceny, and, if they found

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

The statute is the 0 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment,and was the first statute giving costs in actions.

1. Valid; sufficient in law; effectual ; unobjectionable.2. Responsible; solvent; able to pay an amount specified.3. Of a value corresponding with its terms; collectible. A note is said to be “good”when the

In Troy weight, the twenty- fourth part of a pennyweight Any kind of cornsown in the ground.

A slang term for a woman separated from her husband by abandonmentor prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. Webster.

In English law. A board or court of justice held in tlie countinghouseof the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferiorofficers. It takes its name from the

In old records. A deep hollow or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell.

v. To undertake collaterally to answer for the payment of another’s debtor the performance of another’s duty, liability, or obligation; to assume the responsibilityof a guarantor; to warrant See GUARANTY, n.

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild.The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. Themercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed

Wandering monks.

Wager of law, (q. v.)