Category: G

n. In English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow-prisoners on his entrance into prison.

A species of socage tenure common in Kent, in England, where thelands descend to all the sous, or heirs of the nearest degree, together; may bedisposed of by will; do not escheat

May mean either a de gree of removal in computing descents, or asingle succession of living beings in natural descent. McMillan v. School Committee, 107N. C. 609, 12 S. E. 330, 10

In the civil law. Officers appointed to manage hospitals for the aged poor.

In Saxon law. Members of a gild or decennary. Oftener spelled “con- gildo.”Du Cange; Spelman.

The gathering of grain after reapers, or of grain left ungathered byreapers. Held uot to be a right at common law. 1 II. Bl. 51.

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters outof the land Into the sea. Callis describes goats as “usual engines erected and built withportcullises and doors of timber and

In canon law. Compa- ternity; spiritual affinity.

In old English law. An officer having charge of a granary. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 82,

In old English law. A grove; a small wood; a coppice or thicket Co. Litt 46.A thick wood of high trees. Blount

The time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates; i. e., from the year 15S2.

Timber. Cowell.

A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman.

A coin formerly issued by the English mint, but all these coins were calledin in the time of Wm. IV. The word now means only the sum of

In the Law French orthography, this letter is often substituted for the English W,particularly as an initial. Thus, “gage” for “wage,” “garranty” for “warranty,” “gast” for”waste.”

A thick wood. Spelman.

A prison for temporary confinement; a Jail; a place for the confinement ofoffenders against the law.There is said to be a distinction between “gaol” and “prison;” the former being aplace for temporary

One garnished; a person against whom process of garnishment isIssued; one who has money or property In his possession belonging to a defendant, orwho owes the defendant a debt, which money, property,

An oilicer of the English crown having the general management of themines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Rriavel’s, subject, insome respects, to the control of

Lat. Gentleman; a gentleman. Spelman.