Category: G

A charge or instruction by the court to the jury upon the case as a whole, or upon its general features or characteristics.

Charity, in its widest sense, denotes all the good affections men ought to bear towards each other; in a restricted and common sense, relief of the poor. Morice v.

Gratuitous contracts are those of which the object is the benefit of the person with whom it is made, without any profit or advantage received or promised as a consideration for it.

One stating in a general way the plaintiff’s claim. Wertheim v. Casualty Co., 72 Vt. 320. 47 Atl. 1071

The grant of authority to administer upon the entire estate of a decedent, without restriction or limitation, whether under the intestate laws or with the will annexed. Clemens v. Walker, 10 Ala.

In maritime law. A loan on bottomry. So named because the lender, in case of a loss, or expense incurred for the common safety, must contribute to the gross or general average.

Appraisers appointed under an act of congress to afford aid and assistance to the collectors of customs in the appraisement of imported merchandise. Gibb v. Washington, 10 Fed. Cas. 288.

An assignment made for the benefit of all the assignor’s creditors, instead of a few only; or one which transfers the whole of his estate to the assignee, instead of a part

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

Poor rate. In English law.A tax levied by parochial authorities for the relief of the poor.