Category: G

The head of a family.

See HINDU LAW.

A. In Saxon law. The ancient convention of the people to decide a cause.

In Louisiana law. A phrase (translating the Fr. “dation enpagement”) which signifies the delivery and acceptance of real or personal property insatisfaction of a debt, instead of a payment in money. See

Lat. A gloss, explanation, or interpretation. The glossce of the Roman laware brief illustrative comments or annotations on the text of Justinian’s collections,made by the professors who taught or lectured on them

In Hindu law. An agent; a steward; a confidential factor; a representative.

A writing-book, register, or cartulary of deeds and evidences. Cowell.

In old English law. Noblemen or grandees. Jacob.

Satisfaction for an offense committed or injury done. Cowell.

In old English law. A merchant or trader who engrossed all vendiblemerchandise; an engrosser. St 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See ENGROSSER.

He to whom a guaranty is made. This word is also used, as a noun, to denote the contract of guaranty or the obligation of a guarantor, and, as a verb, to

An Iron or steel plate to be attached to a rail for the purpose otguiding to their place on the rail wheels thrown off the track. Pub. St. Mass. 1SS2, p.1291.

The name of a court which was held every three weeks In the liberty orhundred of Pathbew in Warwick. Jacob.

v. In old English law. To pawn or pledge; to give as security for a payment orperformance; to wage or wager.

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