Category: G

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.

In English law. A board or court of justice held in tlie countinghouseof the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferiorofficers. It takes its name from the

In old records. A deep hollow or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell.

He who makes a guaranty.

A voluntary association of persons pursuing the same trade, art, profession,or business, such as printers, goldsmiths, wool merchants, etc., united under a distinctorganization of their own. analogous to that of a corporation,

Government by a woman; a state in which womenare legally capable of the supreme command; e. g., in Great Britain and Spain.

Wager of law, (q. v.)

The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling; theplaying at any game of hazard. An agreement between two or more persons to playtogether at a game of chance

A keeper; a guardian.

A ganger. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or designating, the genus or class, as distinguished fromthat which characterizes the spccics or individual. Universal, not particularized; as opposedto special. Principal or central; as opposed to local. Open or

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.