GEBOCIAN
In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer hoc land, (book-land or land heldby charter.) The grantor was said to gebo- cidn the alienee. See 1 Reeve. Eng. Law, 10.
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In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer hoc land, (book-land or land heldby charter.) The grantor was said to gebo- cidn the alienee. See 1 Reeve. Eng. Law, 10.
Lat. People. Contra omnes gentes, against all people. Bract, fol. 376.Words used in the clause of warranty In old deeds.
In Saxon law. A guest. A name given to a stranger on the second night of hisentertainment in another’s house. Tiva- night gest.
L. Fr. To lie. Gist en le louche, it lies in the mouth. Le action lien gist, theaction well lies. Gisant, lying.
Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell
In old English law. Earnest-money; money given as evidence of thecompletion of a bargain. This nanie is probably derived from the fact that such moneywas given to the church or distributed in
1. The regulation, restraint, supervision, or control which is exercised upon the individual members of an organized jural society by those invested with the supreme political authority, for the good and welfare
As to grand “Assize,” “Bill of Sale,” “Cape,” “Distress,” “Jury,” “Larceny,” and “Serjeanty,” see those titles.
A gratuity; a recompense or reward for services or benefits, givenvoluntarily, without solicitation or promise.
A feudal custom in the manor of Writtel, in Essex, where everytenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a half-penny yearly to tlie lord,by the namo of “green silver” or
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.
A rent; a tax. Domesday; Du Cange. The gable-end of a house. Cowell.
A cock-shoot, or cock-glade.
In old Lombardic law. A gift; a free or absolute gift; a gift of tbe whole of a thing. Spelman.
In old English law. An amerciament or fine. Cowell.
In old English law. Neighborhood or adjoining district. Cowell.
In Roman law. The members of a gens or common tribe.