Category: G

In Saxon law. Members of a gild or decennary. Oftener spelled “con- gildo.”Du Cange; Spelman.

The gathering of grain after reapers, or of grain left ungathered byreapers. Held uot to be a right at common law. 1 II. Bl. 51.

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

Such a measure of care, prudence, and assiduity as persons of unusual prudence and discretion exercise in regard to anyand all of their own affairs, or such as persons of ordinary prudence

writ of. A writ formerly issued in the real action of quare impcdit, when noappearance had been entered after the attachment; it commanded the sheriff todistrain the defendant’s lands and chattels in

The gross earnings of a business or company are the total receipts before deducting expenditures. Net earnings are the excess of the gross earnings over the expenditures defrayed in producing them, and

(1) One at which the officers to be elected are such as belong to the general government,

A peculiar species of trial by jury, introduced in the time of Heniy II., giving the tenant or defendant in a writ of right the alternative of a trial by battel, or

In maritime law. A contribution made by the owners of a ship, its cargo, and the freight, towards the loss sustained by the voluntary and necessary sacrifice of property for the common

Another name for a depositum or naked bailment, which is made only for the benefit of the bailor and is not a source of profit to the bailee. Foster v. Essex Bank,

In English law. The name of an instrument used for the transfer of a ship while she is at sea. An expression which is understood to refer to the instrument whereby a

A judicial writ in the old real actions, which issued for the demandant where the tenant, after being duly summoned, neglected to appear on the return of the writ, or to cast

A term used in the old ecclesiastical law to denote a period of forty days.