GENS
Lat. In Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by common descent and bearing the same name, being all free-born and of free ancestors, and ip possession of full civic rights.
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GILDA MERCATORIA
“Gift” and “advancement” are sometimes used interchangeably as expressive of the same operation. But, while an advancement is always a gift, a gift is very frequently not an advancement. In re Dewees’ Estate, 3
Gillson v. Price, 18 Nev
109, 1 Pac. 459. A material alteration in any written instrument is one which changes its tenor, or its legal meaning and effect; one which causes it to speak a language different in effect from that which it ere! apeke. White v. Harris, 69 S. C. 65,...
Glas
(or Glase.). Glascock’s Reports in all. the Courts of Ireland. '. Alenn. Glenn’s Reports, vols. 16-18 Louisiana Annual.
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 about the twelfth century, (espec...
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.
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 colonial act of 1647, requiring ever...
GRANT
GRANT. A generic term applicable to all transfers of real property. 3 Washb. Real
GRASSON, or GRASSUM
4A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhoild estate.
Graves, 80 Ala
418.—Tenant at will “is where lands or tenements are let by one man to
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.
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.
GROUND
1. Soil; earth; a portion of the earth’s surface appropriated to private use and under cultivation or susceptible of cultivation.
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, the lord was entitled to the ...
GURGES
Lat. Properly a whirlpool, but in old English law and conveyancing, a deep pit filled with water, distinguished from “stagnum,” which was a shallow pool or pond.
H. 258; Martin v. State, 32 Ark
124; Adams v. Turrentine, 30 N. C. 147.
HABE, or HAVE
Lat. A form of the salutatory expression “Ave,” (hail,) in the titles of the constitutions of the Theodosian and Justinianean Codes. Calvin; Spelman.
HABEAS CORPORA JURATORUM
A writ commanding the sheriff to bring up the persons of jurors, and, if need were, to distrain them of their lands and goods, in order to insure or compel their attendance in court on the day of trial of a cause. It issued from the Common Pleas, and...
HABENDIS POST PURGATIONEM. A
writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods,
HABERE FACIAS POSSESSIONEM
Lat. That you cause to have possession. The name of the process commonly resorted to by the successful party in an action of ejectment, for the purpose of being placed by the sheriff in the actual possession of the land recovered. It is commonly term...
HABERE FAOIAS VISUM
Lat. That you cause to have a view. A writ to cause the sheriff to take a view of lands or tenements.
Hagan. Hugan’s Reports, vols
1-2 Utah. Hagans. Hagans’ Reports, vols. I-5 West Virginia. ; Hagg. See Hag. Hage. Consist. ports, English. Hagn. & Mill. Hagner & Miller’s Reports, vol. 2 Maryland Chancery.
HALF
heresy, and imposed the penalty of death by burning against. all heretics who relapsed or who refused to abjure their opinions. It was repealed by the statute 29 Car. II. c. 9. Brown. This was also the name of a writ for the purpose indicated. a thi...
Hall v. Decker, 48 Me
256; Doe v. Waterloo
Hams, Pers. Prop
4,) and is either in possession or in action. See the following titles. —Chose local. A local thing; a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. Kitchin, fol. 18; Cowell; Blount.—Chose transitory. <A _ thing which is movable, and may be taken away or ...
Harrington vy. Stees, 82 Ill
54, 25 Am. erie 290 ; McVoy v. Percival, Dud. Law (8. C.) 337; Prince v. Hazelton, 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 513, 11 Am. Dec. 307.—Last This term, according to Lord Coke, is most commonly used where lands and tenements are devised, and “testament” wher...
HAUSTUS
Lat. In the civil law. A ‘species of servitude, consisting in the right to draw water from another’s well or spring, in which the ctcr, (right of way to the well or spring,) so far as it is necessary, is tacitly included. Dig. 8, 3, 1; Mackeld. R...
HAVE
Lat. A form of the salutatory expression “Ave,” used in the titles of some of the constitutions of the Theodosian and
Hawkins v. Nowland, 53 Mo
329; Pomroy v. Cates, 81 Me. 877, 17 Atl. 311.