GOD-GIED
That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob.
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That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob.
1. The regulation, restraint, supervision, or control which is exercised upon the individual members of an organized jural society by those invested with the supreme political authority, for the good and welfare
A collection of customs, laws, aud forms of procedure in use inearly times in France. See COUTUHIER.
A sepulcher. A place where a dead body Is Interred.
Lat The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. InEnglish law, an estate which is in abeyance is said to be in grcmio legis; that is, in theprotection or keeping of
In old English law. A fine, or sum of money paid for a lease. Plowd.270, 271. Supposed to be a corruption of gersuma, (g. v.) See GRESSUME.
One who had the custody of the royal mansions.
The heraldic name of the color usually called “red.” The word is derived from the Arabic word “gule,” a rose, and was probably introduced by the Crusaders. Gules is denoted in engravings
The Law Latin form of “gabcl,” (q. v.)
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