One who holds a post at court to usher others to the presence, etc.

A woman of birth above the common, or equal to that of a gentleman; an addition of a woman’s state or degree.

See HINDU LAW.

As applied to notes, bonds, and other written instruments, this termmeans that they are truly what they purport to be, and that they are not false, forged,fictitious, simulated, spurious, or counterfeit. Baldwin

In the civil law. A general class or division, comprising several species. Intoto jure generi per speciem derogatur, et illud potissimum habetur quod ad speciemdirectum est, throughout the law, the species takes

In old New York law. A court messenger or constable. O’Callaghan, New Neth. 322.

In Saxon law. Greve, reve, or reeve; a ministerial officer of high antiquityin England; answering to the grave or graf (gra/io) of the early continental nations. Theterm was applied to various grades

Bearing. Gerens datum, bearing date. 1 Ld. Raym. 336; Hob. 19.

Lat A sprout of the earth. A young tree, so called.

In the civil law. Officers appointed to manage hospitals for the aged poor.

In the civil law. An institution or hospital for taking care of the old. Cod. 1, 3, 46, 1; Calvin.

A name given to the process of dividing a state or other territoryinto the authorized civil or political divisions, but with such a geographical arrangementas to accomplish a sinister or unlawful purpose,

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

In Saxon law. A guest. A name given to a stranger on the second night of hisentertainment in another’s house. Tiva- night gest.

In medical jurisprudence. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carriesthe embryo or foetus in her uterus.

In the civil law. One who acts for another, or transacts another’s business. Calvin.

Lat. In Roman law. A deed or act; a thing done. Some writers affected tomake a distinction between “gcstuni” and “factum.” Rut the best authorities pronouncedthis subtile and indefensible. Dig. GO, 10,

In old Scotch law. Gaolers. 1 1’itc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 234.

A. In Saxon law. The ancient convention of the people to decide a cause.

A gallows; the post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which theirbodies are exposed. It differs from a common gallows, in that it consists of one perpendicularpost, from the top of