Category: G

In old records. A piratical vessel; a galley.

A warranty. Spelman.

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the fortificatiouof a city or camp, or for the ornament of a thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Gauge;Cowell; Blount.

An Anglo-Saxon term, meaning “conveyed.”

Lat. In Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by commondescent and bearing the same name, being all free-born aud of free ancestors,and in possession of full civic

In old English law. Finable; liable to be amerced at the discretion of the lord of a manor. Cowell.

L. Fr. Agistment; cattle taken in to graze at a certain price; also themoney received for grazing cattle.

Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell

In old English law. Earnest-money; money given as evidence of thecompletion of a bargain. This nanie is probably derived from the fact that such moneywas given to the church or distributed in

This word is commonly used in contradistinction to “right.” Thus, in St. 22Edw. III., the lord chancellor was instructed to take cognizance of matters of grace,being such subjects of equity jurisdiction as

In English practice. Certain days in the terms, which are solemnlykept in the inns of court and chancery, viz., Candlemas day in Hilary term, Ascensionday in Easter, St. John the Baptist’s day

A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes definedin statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as “six or more”) areburied. See Stockton v. Weber, 98

The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over parliamentaryelection petitions was transferred from the whole house of commons toselect committees Repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 22, $

1. Soil; earth; a portion of the earth’s surface appropriated to private useand under cultivation or susceptible of cultivation.Though this term is sometimes used in conveyances and in statutes as equivalent to”land.”

War. Spelman.

Wears. Jacob.

Persons who paid gabcl. rent, or tribute. Domesday: Cowell

A kind of coin which, with suskius and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.

In French law. This word corresponds to warranty or covenants for titlein English law. In the case of a sale this garantie extends to two things: (1) Peacefulpossession of the thing sold;

A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practisedin Spain, Portugal, and some Spanish- American countries, consisting in strangulationby means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the