Category: G

A wear, pool, or pit of water. Termes de la Ley.

(Gneco- Lat.) In the civil law. A place for keeping writings or records. Dig. 48, 19, 9, 6.

Freely; gratuitously; without reward or consideration.

In French law. Registrars, or clerks of the courts. They are officialsattached to the courts to assist the judges in their duties. They keep the minutes, writeout the judgments, orders, and other

Great; culpable. General. Absolute or entire. A thing in gross exists in itsown right, and not as an appendage to another thing.As to gross “Adventure,” “Average,” “Earnings,” “Fault,” “Negligence,” and “Weight,” see

A guardian is a person lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing the property and rights of another person, who, for

In criminal law. That quality which imparts criminality to a motive or act, andrenders the person amenable to punishment by the law.That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by

Tillage, or the profit arising from it, or from the beasts employed therein.

Officers In ancient times whose business it was to examine weightsand measures. Skene.

In old English law. Victuals, arms, and other implements of war,necessary for the defense of a town or castle. Mat. Par. 1250.

In English law. Custom; tribute; toll; yearly rent; payment of revenue; ofwhich there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-gavcl, gavelfodder,etc. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 142a.

The issue or offspring of a mother-monastery. Cowell.

Lat A sprout of the earth. A young tree, so called.

A gild merchant, or merchaut gild; a gild, corporation, orcompany of merchants. 10 Coke, 30.

A hand dart Cowell.

To be dismissed from a court. To issue from a court. “The court said a mandamusmust go.” 1 W. Bl. 50. “Let a supersedeas go.” 5 Mod. 421. “The writ may go.”

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.