Category: G

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

Groom of the stole.

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

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

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

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

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell.

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.