In old English law. Victuals, arms, and other implements of war,necessary for the defense of a town or castle. Mat. Par. 1250.

n. In English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow-prisoners on his entrance into prison.

One garnished; a person against whom process of garnishment isIssued; one who has money or property In his possession belonging to a defendant, orwho owes the defendant a debt, which money, property,

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person in whosehands the effects of another are attached not to pay the money or deliver tlie propertyof the defendant in bis hands

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.

A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practisedin Spain, Portugal, and some Spanish- American countries, consisting in strangulationby means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the

In old English law. An amerciament or fine. Cowell.

A string or ribbon by which the stocking is held upon the leg. The mark ofthe highest order of English knighthood, ranking next after the nobility. This militaryorder of knighthood is said

In English law. A yard; a little close or homestead in the north of England. Cowell; Blount.A dam or wear in a river, for the catching of fish.

In old Scotch law. Warder. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 8.

A temporary governor of the country. Blount A bailiff or steward. Spelman.

L. Fr. Waste or uncultivated grouud. Britt. c. 57.

The measure of width of a railway, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet8% inches in Great Britain and America, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland.

A ganger. Lowell.

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws,appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, andother liquids, and to give them a mark of

A gauge or gauging; a measure of the contents of any vessel.

In English law. Custom; tribute; toll; yearly rent; payment of revenue; ofwhich there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-gavcl, gavelfodder,etc. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 142a.

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

An oilicer of the English crown having the general management of themines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Rriavel’s, subject, insome respects, to the control of

The official publication of the English government, also called the “LondonGazette.” It is evidence of acts of state, and of everything done by the king in hispolitical capacity. Orders of adjudication in