Terms beginning with "G" (207 total)

Ga

372, 29 8S. BE. 44, 40 L. R. A. 244; Bishop v. Chase, 156 Mo. 158, 56 S. W. .1080, 79 Am. St. Rep. §15. 1882, § 4375. 218; Machias River Co. v. Pope, 35 Me. 22; Cobb County v. Adams, 68 Ga. 51; 1882, § 1797. —Bas...

Gaither, 46 La. Ann

286, 15 South 50.— Common-law procedure acts. Three acts of parliament, passed in the years 1852, 1854. and 1860, respectively, for the amendment of the ptocedure in the common-law courts. The common-law procedure act ...

GAME

1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Metce. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moo...

GAOL

either one comprehends the idea that, by a bet, by chance, by some exercise of skill, or by the transpiring of some event unknown until it oc curs, something of value is, as the conclusion of premises agreed, to be trans...

GARAUNTOR

L. Fr. In old English law. A warrantor of land; a vouchee; one bound by a warranty to defend the title and seisin of his alienee, or, on default thereof, and on eviction of the tenant, to give him other lands of equal va...

Garner v. State, 76 Miss

515, 25 South. 863.— Dispositive facts. See that title.—Evidentiary facts. Those which have a legitimate bearing on the matter or question in issue and which are directly (not inferentially) establish> ed by the evid...

Garner vy. State, 76 Miss

515, 25 South. 363. —Collateral dmpeachment. A_ collateral impeachment of a judgment or decree is an attempt made to destroy or evade its effect as an estoppel, by reopening the merits of the cause or by showing reason...

GARNISHMENT 536

money or effects of a defendant in attachment, or in a judgment or decree, or in a pending suit commenced in the ordinary form, in the possession or under the control of a third person, or debts owing such defendant, or ...

Garr, 65 Hun

179, 19 N. Y. Supp. 992; People v. McKane, 78 Hun, 154, 28 N. Y. Supp. 981. —Foreign jurisdiction. Any jurisdiction foreign to that of the forum. Also the exercise by a state or nation of jurisdiction beyond its own te...

Gate Lodge, 128 Cal

257, 60 Pac. 865.—Artieles of partnership. A written agreement by which the parties enter into a copartnership Soon the terms and conditions therein stipulat- —Articles of religion. In Pnglish eccle siastica! law. Co...

GAUTIONE ADMITTENDA. In Eng

lish ecclesiastical law. <A writ that lies against a bishop who holds an excommunicated person in prison for contempt, notwithstanding he offers sufficient caution or security to obey the orders and commandment of the ch...

GAVEL

afterwards laid aside, from Edward VI. The badge of the order is the image of St. George, called the “George,” and the motto is “Honit sott qui mal y pense.” Wharton.

GAVELET

GAVELET. An ancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. II. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, e. 12, p. 298. See Emig v. Cunningham, 62

Gaynor, 14 Misc. Rep

334, 36 N. ¥. Supp. 122. The greatest amount of absolute liberty which can, the nature of things, be equally possessed by every citizen in a state. Bouvier. Guarantied protection against interference with the interests ...

GEMMA

Lat. In the civil law. A gem; a precious stone. Gems were distinguished by their transparency; such as emeralds, chrysolites, amethysts. Dig. 34, 2, 19, 17.

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