GERMEN TERR
Lat A sprout of the earth. A young tree, so called.
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Lat A sprout of the earth. A young tree, so called.
A gild merchant, or merchaut gild; a gild, corporation, orcompany of merchants. 10 Coke, 30.
A term used in St 1 Jac.I. c. 7, for wandering rogues or vagrants.
A hollow between two mountains; a valley or glen. Co. Litt 56.
In old English law. A breach in a bank or sea wall, or a passage worn by theflux and reflux of the sea. St. If! & 17 Car. II. c. 11.
An ancient duty in London under which the twentieth part of salt imported by aliens was taken.
The person by whom a grant is made.
As used in various compound legal terms, this word generally means extraordinary,that is, exceeding the common or ordinary measure or standard, in respectto physical size, or importance, dignity, etc. See Gulf, etc.,
A marriage celebrated at Gretna, iu Dumfries, (bordering on the county of Cumberland,)iu Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consentalone, without any other formality. When
A crop must be considered and treated as a growing crop fromthe time the seed is deposited in the ground, as at that time the seed loses the qualitiesof a chattel, and
A traveler who lodges at an inn or tavern with the consent of the keeper.Bac. Abr. “Inns,” C, 5; 8 Coke, 32; Mc- Daniels v. Robinson, 20 Vt. 310, 02 Am. Dec.574;
The diminutive of a sewer. Callis, Sew. (80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or conduit designed to allow the passage of water from one point to another in a certain
In old English law. A soke- man; one who occupied or cultivated arablelaud. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.
(pronounced “gauntlett.”) A military punishment, in which the criminalrunning between the ranks receives a lash from each man. Enc. Lond. This was called”running the gauntlett.”
n. In English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow-prisoners on his entrance into prison.
A species of socage tenure common in Kent, in England, where thelands descend to all the sous, or heirs of the nearest degree, together; may bedisposed of by will; do not escheat
May mean either a de gree of removal in computing descents, or asingle succession of living beings in natural descent. McMillan v. School Committee, 107N. C. 609, 12 S. E. 330, 10
In the civil law. Officers appointed to manage hospitals for the aged poor.
In Saxon law. Members of a gild or decennary. Oftener spelled “con- gildo.”Du Cange; Spelman.
A hand dart Cowell.
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