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In old English law, a small, narrow slip of ground. Cowell. In modern landlaw, a small triangular piece of land, such us may be left between surveys which do notclose. In some

The unit of weight in the metric system. The gramme is the weight of a cubic centimeter of distilled water at the temperature of 4.

Without valuable or legal consideration. A term applied to deeds ofconveyance and to bailments and other contracts.In old English law. Voluntary; without force, fear, or favor. Bract, fols. 11, 17.As to gratuitous

The code or collection of constitutions made by the Roman jurist Gregorius. See CODEX GREGORIANUS.

Fr. In French marine law. The contract of bottomry. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit 5.

The office, duty, or authority of a guardian. Also the relationsubsisting between guardian and ward.

Having committed a crime or tort: the word used by a prisoner in pleadingto an. indictment when he confesses the crime of which he is charged, and by the juryin convicting. Com.

In old English law. A soke- man; one who occupied or cultivated arablelaud. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.

(pronounced “gauntlett.”) A military punishment, in which the criminalrunning between the ranks receives a lash from each man. Enc. Lond. This was called”running the gauntlett.”

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.