Category: G

In old New York law. A court messenger or constable. O’Callaghan, New Neth. 322.

A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to another,made gratuitously, and not upon any consideration of blood or money. 2 Rl.Comm. 440; 2 Steph. Comm. 102; 2

Lat. A sword. An ancient emblem of defense. Hence the ancient earls orcomites (the king’s attendants, advisers, and associates in his government) were madeby being girt with swords, (gladio succincti.)The emblem of

Extraordinary rewards formerly given to officers of courts, etc.;money formerly given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders are left forexecution to the clerk of assize and judges’ officers.

In contracts. The term “goods” is not so wide as “chattels,” for it applies to inanimate objects, and does not Include animals or chattels real, as a lease for years of house

An ancient duty in London under which the twentieth part of salt imported by aliens was taken.

A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhold estate.

The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United Statestreasury issues. It is not applied to any other species of paper currency; and, when employediu testimony by way of description. Is

In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the king’s wardrobe.

v. To undertake collaterally to answer for the payment of another’s debtor the performance of another’s duty, liability, or obligation; to assume the responsibilityof a guarantor; to warrant See GUARANTY, n.

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild.The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. Themercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed

Wandering monks.

Profits; winnings; increment of value. Gray v. Darlington, 15 Wall. 65, 21L. Ed. 45; Thorn v. De Breteuil, SO App. Div. 405, 83 N. Y. Supp. 840.

In Spanish law. A species of community in property enjoyedby husband and wife, the property being divisible between them equally on a dissolutionof the marriage. 1 Burge, Confl. Law, 418. See Cartwright

L. Fr. Custody; wardship.

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws,appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, andother liquids, and to give them a mark of

The usual commons In a religious house, distinguished from pietan- tiw,which on extraordinary occasions were allowed beyond the commons. Cowell.Generale dictum generaliter est inter- pretandum. A general expression is to beinterpreted generally.

In Saxon law. Greve, reve, or reeve; a ministerial officer of high antiquityin England; answering to the grave or graf (gra/io) of the early continental nations. Theterm was applied to various grades

The stream of water to a mill. Mon. Angl. torn. 3.

A sword, lance, or horseman’s staff. One of the weapons allowed in a trial by combat.