Category: G

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.

Timber. Cowell.

A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman.

A coin formerly issued by the English mint, but all these coins were calledin in the time of Wm. IV. The word now means only the sum of

In the Law French orthography, this letter is often substituted for the English W,particularly as an initial. Thus, “gage” for “wage,” “garranty” for “warranty,” “gast” for”waste.”

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.