Category: G

A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes definedin statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as “six or more”) areburied. See Stockton v. Weber, 98

The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over parliamentaryelection petitions was transferred from the whole house of commons toselect committees Repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 22, $

1. Soil; earth; a portion of the earth’s surface appropriated to private useand under cultivation or susceptible of cultivation.Though this term is sometimes used in conveyances and in statutes as equivalent to”land.”

War. Spelman.

Wears. Jacob.

Persons who paid gabcl. rent, or tribute. Domesday: Cowell

A kind of coin which, with suskius and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.

In French law. This word corresponds to warranty or covenants for titlein English law. In the case of a sale this garantie extends to two things: (1) Peacefulpossession of the thing sold;

A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practisedin Spain, Portugal, and some Spanish- American countries, consisting in strangulationby means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the

In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer hoc land, (book-land or land heldby charter.) The grantor was said to gebo- cidn the alienee. See 1 Reeve. Eng. Law, 10.

Lat. People. Contra omnes gentes, against all people. Bract, fol. 376.Words used in the clause of warranty In old deeds.

In Saxon law. A guest. A name given to a stranger on the second night of hisentertainment in another’s house. Tiva- night gest.

L. Fr. To lie. Gist en le louche, it lies in the mouth. Le action lien gist, theaction well lies. Gisant, lying.

In ecclesiastical law. The land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiasticalbenefice. In Roman law. A clod; turf; soil. Hence, the soil of an inheritance; an

An old form of the word “cucking-stool,” (q. v.) Cowell.

Time of indulgence granted to an acceptor or maker for the paymentof his bill of exchange or note. It was originally a gratuitous favor, (hence thename,) but custom has rendered it a

A farm furnished with barns, granaries, stables, and all conveniences for husbandry. Co. Litt. 5a.

Grievous; great. Ad grave damnum, to the grievous damage. 11 Coke, 40.

In English law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant onthe death of the lord. 1 Strange, 654; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 615,

A custom or tribute paid for tbe standing of shipping in port. Jacob.