Category: G

A thick wood. Spelman.

A prison for temporary confinement; a Jail; a place for the confinement ofoffenders against the law.There is said to be a distinction between “gaol” and “prison;” the former being aplace for temporary

One garnished; a person against whom process of garnishment isIssued; one who has money or property In his possession belonging to a defendant, orwho owes the defendant a debt, which money, property,

An oilicer of the English crown having the general management of themines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Rriavel’s, subject, insome respects, to the control of

Lat. Gentleman; a gentleman. Spelman.

In the civil law. An institution or hospital for taking care of the old. Cod. 1, 3, 46, 1; Calvin.

L. Fr. A cheat or deceiver. Applied in Britton to those who sold false orspurious things for good, as pewter for silver or laten for gold. Britt c. 15.

A turf, sod, or clod of earth. The soil or ground; cultivated land in general.Church land, (solum et dos ecclesice.) Spelman. See GLEBE.

The answer made by a prisoner, when arraigned, inanswer to the question, “How will you be tried?” In the ancient practice he had thechoice (as appears by the question) whether to submit

In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, characterized or caused by an excess of uric acid in the blood; usually, but not invariably, occurring in

As to grand “Assize,” “Bill of Sale,” “Cape,” “Distress,” “Jury,” “Larceny,” and “Serjeanty,” see those titles.

The burden or gist of a charge; the grievance or injury specially complained of.In English ecclesiastical law. A grievance complained of by the clergy before thebishops in convocation.

In Spanish law. A guild; an association of workmen, artificers, or merchantsfollowing the same trade or business; designed to protect and further theinterests of their craft.

L. Fr. Largely, greatly. Grosscment enseint, big with child. Plowd. 76.

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

An excise; a tax ou movables ; a rent, custom, or service. Co. Litt. 213.

The payment of a rent, tax, duty, or annuity.A gale is the right to open and work a mine within the Hundred of St. Brlavel’s, or astone quarry within the open lands

In criminal law. The delivery or clearing of a gaol of the prisoners confined therein, by trying them.In popular speech, the clearing of a gaol by the escape of the prisoners.

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person in whosehands the effects of another are attached not to pay the money or deliver tlie propertyof the defendant in bis hands