Category: G

In old records. A piratical vessel; a galley.

A warranty. Spelman.

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the fortificatiouof a city or camp, or for the ornament of a thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Gauge;Cowell; Blount.

An Anglo-Saxon term, meaning “conveyed.”

Lat. In Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by commondescent and bearing the same name, being all free-born aud of free ancestors,and in possession of full civic

In old English law. Finable; liable to be amerced at the discretion of the lord of a manor. Cowell.

L. Fr. Agistment; cattle taken in to graze at a certain price; also themoney received for grazing cattle.

Villein-socmen, who could uot be removed from the land whilethey did the service due. Bract, c. 7; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 209.

That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob.

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.

Persons who paid gabcl. rent, or tribute. Domesday: Cowell

A kind of coin which, with suskius and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.

In French law. This word corresponds to warranty or covenants for titlein English law. In the case of a sale this garantie extends to two things: (1) Peacefulpossession of the thing sold;