Girard Nat. Bank, 109 Pa
356. But the term “foreign attachment” more properly belongs to the process otherwise familiarly known as “garnishment.” It was a peculiar and ancient remedy open to creditors within the jurisdiction of the city ...
Terms beginning with "G" (207 total)
GISEMENT
L. Fr. Agistment; cattle taken in to graze at a certain price; also the money received for grazing cattle.
GISER
L. Fr. To lie. Gist en le bouche, it lies in the mouth. Le action bien gist, the action well lies. Gisant, lying.
GISLE. In Saxon law. A pledge
Fredgtsle, a pledge of peace. Gislebert, an illustrious pledge. —
GIVE
1. To transfer or yield to, or bestow upon, another. One of the operative words in deeds of conveyance of real property, importing at common law, a warranty or covenant for quiet enjoyment during the lifetime of the gran...
Givens, 67 Fed
684, 14 C. C. A. 625; Meyer v. Roth, 51 Cal. 582; Yoast v. Willis, 9 Ind. — 550; Larson v. Aultman & Taylor Co., 80
GIVER
GIVING IN PAYMENT. In Louisiana law. <A phrase (translating the Fr. “dation en payement’”) which signifies the delivery and acceptance of real or personal property - in satisfaction of a debt, instead of a payment ...
GLADIUS
Lat. <A sword. An anctent emblem of defense. Hence the ancient earls or comites {the king’s attendants, advisers, and associates in his government) were made by being girt with swords, (gladio succincti.)
Glan
18, 28. lib. 7, c. 16. . lib. Glanville, De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Anglise.
GLANS
meaning, but are commonly used -to express different modes of transferring the right to property from one person to another. “To sell” means to transfer for a valuable consideration, while “to give” signifies to ...
Glanv
lib. 2, c. 6; Kitzh. Nat. Brev. 146. Perhaps this word “deraign,” and the word “deraignment,” derived from it, may be used in the sense of to prove and a proving, by disproving of what is asserted in opposition t...
Glas
(or Glase.). Glascock’s Reports in all. the Courts of Ireland. '. Alenn. Glenn’s Reports, vols. 16-18 Louisiana Annual.
Glass y. Dunn, 17 Ohio St
424; Crawford v. McCarthy. 150 N. Y. 514, 54 N. E. 277;
GLAVEA
A hand dart. Cowell.
Glidden, 60 Vt
702, 15 Atl 358; Asher v.
GLOS
Lat. In the civil law. <A husband’s sister. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.
GLOSSA
Lat. A gloss, explanation, or interpretation. The glosse of the Roman law are brief illustrative comments or annotations on the text of Justinian’s collections, made by the professors who taught or lectured on them abo...
Gloucester Fe Co
v. Pennsylvania, 114 U. 8. 196, 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158.—Halfproof. In the civil law. Proof by one witness, or a private instrument. Hallifax, Civil
GLOUCESTER, STATUTE OF. The
statute is the 6 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment, and was the first statute giving costs in actions. i
Glycerin Case, 15 Wall
586, 21 L. Ed. 206; Blythe v. Birmingham Waterworks Co., 11
Glynn, 88 N. ¥
370; In re Logan’s Estate, 195 Pa. 282, 45 Atl. 729; Mooney v. Olsen, 22°:Kan. 79; In re Black’s Estate, Myr.
Go., 37 N. Y¥
684; Thurston v. litney, 2 Cush. (Mass.) 110; Com. v. Hills, 10 Cush. (Mass.) 530.
GO8, 51 Atl
617; Gledhill v. Governor, 25 N. J. Law, 351. A ministerial duty arises when an individual has such a legal interest in its performance that neglect o rformance beeomes a wrong to such individual. Morton v.
GOAT
Glossa viperina est que corrodit viscera textus. 11 Coke, 34. It is a poisonous gloss which corrupts the essence of the text.
GOD AND MY COUNTRY
GOD AND MY COUNTRY. The answer made by a prisoner, when arraigned, in answer to the question, “How will you be tried?’ In the ancient practice he had the choice (as appears by the question) whether to submit to the t...
Godb
68. With regard to the right of tithes, deducing its origin from the right of the patron, then the cognizance of them belongs to the civil law; that is, the common law.
Goddard v. Storch, 57 Kan
714, 48 Pac. 15; Goodnow vy. Wells, 67 Iowa, 654, 25 N. W. 864.
Godfrey, 1 Pick
(Mass.) 97; Enfield v. Jordan, 119 U. 8S. 680, 7 Sup. Ct. 358, 80 L. Ed 523; Rogers v. Galloway Female College, 64
Godshaw v. Struck, 109 Ky
285, 58 & W. 781, 51 L. R. A. 668. <A special agent is one employed to conduct a particular transaction or piece of business for his principal or authorised to perform a specified act. Bryant v. Moore, 26 Me. 87, 45 Am. ...
Gofrey, 16 Me
158;) and in that a Hmitation ends the estate without entry or claim, which is not true of a condition. It also differs from a conditional limitation; for in the latter the estate is Hmited over to a third person, while ...
Gold
(or Goldes.). Goldesborough’s or Gouldsborough’s English King’s Bench Re- ‘ports.
GOLIARDUS
L. Lat. A jester, buffoon, or juggler. Spelman, voc. ‘“Goliardensis.”’
GOOD
1. Valid; sufficient in law; effectual; unobjectionable. 175, 25 Ky."Law Rep. 608; In re Spenser, 22
Good, 88 Cal
287.—Oonjunctive obligation..
Goods Co
v. Bledsoe. 113 Ala. 418, 21 South. 403: Hirshiser v. Tinsley, 9 Mo. App. 342;
Goodwin, 3 Ariz
255, 26 Pac. 877; Topeka
Goshen Sweeper Co., 72 Fed
545, 19 C. C. A. 25. An order in a chancery suit made on motion or otherwise not at the regular hearing of a cause, and yet not of an interlocutory nature, but finally disposing of the cause, so far as a decree could the...
Gosling, 10 Wyo
346, 68 Pac. 1118, 98 Am.
Gould, 16 Wend
(N. Y¥.) 5381; Tucker v.
Gould, Pl
c. 4, § 12; Hathaway v. Rice, 19
GOVERNMENT
Van Patten v. Leonard, 55 Iowa, 520, 8 N. W. 334; Putnam v. Westcott, 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 76.” 1. The regulation, restraint, supervision, or control which is ex- ercised upon the individual members of an organized jura...
GOVERNOR
and establishes itself in their place, and ‘so becomes the actual government of a country. The distinguishing characteristic of such a government is that adherents to it in war against the government de jure do not inc...
Gr. Eq
(or Ch.). (H. W.) Green's New Equity Reports;—Gresley’s Equity Evidence.
GRACE
magistrate of some colonies, provinces, and dependencies of other nations.
Gracie v
Freeland, 1 N. Y. 232.—Limited ju- Yisdiction. This term is ambiguous, and the books sometimes use it without due precision. It is sometimes carelessly employed instead of “special.” The true distinction between co...
Graham, 79 Pa
118, 21 Am. Rep. 49.
GRANGIA
GRAMMAR SOHOOL. In England, this term designates a school in which such instruction is given as will prepare the student to enter a college or university, and in this sense the phrase was used in the Massachusetts coloni...
GRANT
GRANT. A generic term applicable to all transfers of real property. 3 Washb. Real
Grant, 1 Conn
487, 7 Am. Dec. 235; Hays v.
GRASSON, or GRASSUM
4A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhoild estate.