Grat
(Va.) 912; Ducher v. State, 18 Ohio, 317; Johnston v. Com.. 85 Pa. 64, 27 Am. (Va.) 868; Cooney vy. Burke, 11 Neb. 258, 9 N. W. 57; Red v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. (or Gratt.). Grattan’s Virginia Re-
Terms beginning with "G" (207 total)
GRATIS
Freely; gratuitously; without reward or consideration.
Grav
de Jur. Nat. Gent. Jure Naturale Gentium, etc.
GRAVATIO
GRAVATIO. In old English law. An ac cusation or impeachment. Leg. Ethel. c. 19.
Graves, 80 Ala
418.—Tenant at will “is where lands or tenements are let by one man to
Gray v. Bennett, 3 Metce
(Mass. ] 527 ;) or may declare what shall be taken to be the true meaning and intention of a previous statute, though in the latter case such enactments are more commonly called “expository statutes.”
Gray’s Reports, vols
112-122 North Carolina
Great Western Ins. Co
yv. Thwing, 13 Wall. 674, 20-L. Ed. 607.
GREEN
SCOTCH PEERS. Peers of the kingdom of Scotland; of these sixteen are elected to parliament by the rest and represent the whole body. They are elected for one ae ment only.
Green v. State, 13 Mo
382; State v. Teahan, 50 Conn. 92; Connaughty v. State, 1 Wis. 158, 60 Am. Dec. 370.
Green, 4 Whart
(Pa.) 560; Groesbeeck v.
Green, 49 Ind
423; Bryant v. Fairfield, 51
Green, 52 How. Prac
(N. Y:) 440; Archer v.
Green’s Appeal, 97 Pa
347.—First mortgage bonds. Bonds the payment of which is secur ed by a first mortgage on property. Bank of 347. Properly speaking, however, the term designates the second of a series of mortgages, not necessarily the ...
Greenup v. Bacon
1 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 108.
Greer, 172 Ill
549, 50 N. BD. 246, 40 L. R. A. 589; Old Colony, etc., Co. v. Parker, etc., Co., 188 Mass. 557, 67 N. BE. 870; Warner v.
Gregor, 9 Adol. & El
576; Benjamin v. Ver Nooy, 168 N. Y. 578, 61 N. E. 971; Commercial Union Assur. Co. y. Scammon, 35 III.
Gregory, 108 La
648, 32 South. 986; Smith v. Fyler, 2 Hill (N. Y.) 649; Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 8556. ; —Certain In feudal and old Wnglish law. Such services as were stinted (limited or defined) in quantity, and could not exceeded on...
Gregory, 53 App. Div
850, 65 N. ¥. Supp. 867;
Gregz Tp
v. Jamison. 55 Pa. 468; Pierce v.
GREMIUM
Lat. The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. In English law, an estate which is in abeyance is said to be in gremio Icgis; that is, in the protection or keeping of the law.
GRESSUME
GREEN CLOTH. In English law. A board or court of justice held in the countinghouse of the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferior officers. It takes its name from the green cloth ...
GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE
the death of the lord. 1 Strange, 634; 1
GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE. A
marriage celebrated at Gretna, in Dumfries, (bordering on the county of Cumberland,) in Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consent alone, without any other formality. When the marriage...
Gribling, 128 Ind
110, 26 N. BD. 784; Cham-
Grif
L.. Reg. Griffith’s Law Register, Burlington, New Jersey. :
Griffeth v. Griffeth
162 Ill. 368, 44 N. E. 820;
Grifin, 49 Miss
748—Involuntary manslaughter. The unintentional killing of a sei by one engaged in an unlawful, but not once act. 4 Steph. Comm. oe —Involuntary payment. One obtained by fraud. oppression, or extortion, or to avoid t...
Grisw. Griswold’s Reports, vols
14-19 Ohio. Gro. Grotius, De Jure Belli et Pacis.
Griswold v. Hlepburn, 2 Duy
(Ky.) 33; Leonard vy. State, 115 Ala. 80, 22 South. 564;
Gro
de J. B. Hb. 2, c. 11, § 14. de Jure B. lib. 1, c 1, § 3. de J. B. Grotius, De Jure Belli et Pacis.
Grocery Co., 46 W. Va
197, 32 8S. E. 997%.
Gronstadt v. Witthoff (D. C.) 15 Fed
265; Dalgleish v. Brooke, 15 East, 295; Kenyon v.
GROSSEMENT
L. Fr. Largely, greatly. Grossement enseint, big with child.
GROUND
1. Soil; earth; a portion of the earth’s surface appropriated to private use and under cultivation or susceptible of cultivation.
GROWING CROP
GROSSE BOIS. Timber. Cowell. hold, and passes with a sale of it. Wilkingon v. Ketler, 69 Ala. 435.
Grundy, 2 Ky
169; People v. Waite, 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 58; Richman v. Lippincott, 29 N. J. Law, 59.
Grush, 5 Mason, 290, Fed. Cas. No
15,268. Oorpus corporatum. A corporation; a corporate body, other than municipal._—_Corpus cum causa. ee body with the cause.) An
Gsais
the plea. Gray v. Gidiere, 4 Strob. (S.
Guano Co
v. Richardson, 26 S. C. 401, 2 8S. EB 807; Sellwood vy. Gray, 11 Or. 534, 5 Pac. 196; v. Board of Agriculture. 171 U. S. 345, 18 Sup. Ct. 862, 41 L. Ed. 191; Turner
GUARANTY
GUARANTY, n. A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who, in the first instance, is liable to such payment or performance. Gallagher v....
Guaranty Co., 32 Wash
120, 72 Pac. 10382. —Life insurance. That kind of insurance in which the risk contemplated is the death of a particular person; upon which event (if it occurs within a prescribed term, or, according to the contract, wh...
GUARDIAN
care of the person or property of another. Civ. Code Cal. § 286. In the tenure by knight's service, in the feudal law, if the heir of the feud was under the age of twenty-one, being a male, or fourteen, being a female,...
Guardian Mut
L. Ins. Co., 66 Barb. (N. Y.) 472. Distinguished from “organic” disease, which is due to some injury to, or lesion or malformation in, the organ in question.
GUBERNATOR
Lat. In Roman law. The pilot or steersman of a ship.
GUILD
Shoecraft v. Bailey, 25 Iowa, 555; Beale v. Posey, 72 Ala. 331; Walling v. Potter, 35
GUILDHALL
GUILDHALL. The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild.
Guiteau’s Case (D. C.) 10 Fed
170. See In- 161; Clarke v. State, 117 Ala. 1, 23 South. 671, 67 Am.
Gulf, etc.,, R. Co
v. Smith, 87 Tex. 348, 28 8. W. 520.
GURANCE
LIVELODE. Maintenance; support.