Category: G

The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling; theplaying at any game of hazard. An agreement between two or more persons to playtogether at a game of chance

A keeper; a guardian.

A ganger. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or designating, the genus or class, as distinguished fromthat which characterizes the spccics or individual. Universal, not particularized; as opposedto special. Principal or central; as opposed to local. Open or

In old New York law. A court messenger or constable. O’Callaghan, New Neth. 322.

A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to another,made gratuitously, and not upon any consideration of blood or money. 2 Rl.Comm. 440; 2 Steph. Comm. 102; 2

Lat. A sword. An ancient emblem of defense. Hence the ancient earls orcomites (the king’s attendants, advisers, and associates in his government) were madeby being girt with swords, (gladio succincti.)The emblem of

Extraordinary rewards formerly given to officers of courts, etc.;money formerly given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders are left forexecution to the clerk of assize and judges’ officers.

In contracts. The term “goods” is not so wide as “chattels,” for it applies to inanimate objects, and does not Include animals or chattels real, as a lease for years of house

An ancient duty in London under which the twentieth part of salt imported by aliens was taken.

A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhold estate.

The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United Statestreasury issues. It is not applied to any other species of paper currency; and, when employediu testimony by way of description. Is

In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the king’s wardrobe.

A state of wardship.

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

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.

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

L. Fr. Custody; wardship.

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

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.