Category: G

In medical Jurisprudence. A venereal disease, characterized by apurulent inflammation of the urethra.

A term used In equity to denote the confirmation, by relation back, of theright of a mortgagee in premises to which, at the making of the mortgage, themortgagor had only an imperfect

Rogation week, so called anciently in the inns of court and chancery.

A colloquial expression to signify a time indefinitely remote, therebeing no such division of time known to the Greeks.

A liquor saloon, barroom, or dram-shop ; a place where intoxicatingliquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. E. 602.

In Spanish law. A written authorization to a court to enforce theperformance of an agreement in the same manner as if it had been decreed uponregular legal proceedings.

The name of a treatise on maritime law, by an unknownauthor, supposed to have been written about 1071 at Rouen, and considered, incontinental Europe, as a work of high authority.

Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell.

In old English law. When he who has distrained, being sued, has not delivered the cattle distrained,then he shall not only avow the distress, but gagcr dclivcrance, i. e., put insurety or

1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon,Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (inEngland) hares, pheasants, partridges,

L. Fr. Wardship; care; custody; also the ward of a city.

The measure of width of a railway, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet8% inches in Great Britain and America, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland.

Lat. In the civil law. A son- in-law ; a daughter’s husband. (Filia: vir.) Dig. 38, 10, 4, 0.

In the civil law. A general class or division, comprising several species. Intoto jure generi per speciem derogatur, et illud potissimum habetur quod ad speciemdirectum est, throughout the law, the species takes

Lynch law; In particular a custom anciently prevailing in the parish ofHalifax, England, by which the free burghers held a summary trial of any one accusedof petit larceny, and, if they found

A little sword or dagger; a kind of sedge. Mat. Paris.

The statute is the 0 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment,and was the first statute giving costs in actions.

1. Valid; sufficient in law; effectual ; unobjectionable.2. Responsible; solvent; able to pay an amount specified.3. Of a value corresponding with its terms; collectible. A note is said to be “good”when the

In Troy weight, the twenty- fourth part of a pennyweight Any kind of cornsown in the ground.

A slang term for a woman separated from her husband by abandonmentor prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. Webster.