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Gallon
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Gallonmeasures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts.
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Gallon
measures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts.
Measure
That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.
Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
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Gallows
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death.
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Gabel
A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. But this seems to be an error for gabelle signified in that country, previously to its revolution, a duty upon salt. Lord Coke says, that gabel or gavel, gablum, gabellum, gabelletum, galbelletum, and gavillettum signify a rent, duty, or service, yielded or done to the king or any other lord.
Gage
Contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt; a pawn. Hence mortgage is a dead pledge.
Gager del ley
Wager of law.
Gain
The word is used as synonymous with profits.
Gainage
Old English law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of soke men and villeins, and sometimes the land itself, or the profits raised by cultivating it.
Gallon
Gallows
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death.
Game
Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Animals; Ferae natural
Gaming
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which the parties make of the thing played for, under certain. conditions.
Gaming houses
Criminal law. Houses kept for the purpose of pemitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices.
Ganancial
Spanish law. A term which in Spanish signifies nearly the same as acquets. Bienes gananciales are thus defined: " Aquellos que el marido y la muger o cualquiera de los dos adquieren o aumentan durante el matrimonio por compra o otro contrato, 6 mediante su trabajo e industria, como tambien los frutos de los bienos proprios que cada uno elevo al matrimonio, et de los que subsistiendo este adquieran para si por cualquier titulo.This is a species of community; the property of which it is formed belongs in common to the two consorts, and, on the dissolution of the marriage, is divisible between them in equal shares. It is confined to their future acquisition durante el matrimonio, and the frutos, or rents and profits of the other property.
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Gallon
measures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts.
Measure
That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.
Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
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Gallows
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Gabel
A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. But this seems to be an error for gabelle signified in that country, previously to its revolution, a duty upon salt. Lord Coke says, that gabel or gavel, gablum, gabellum, gabelletum, galbelletum, and gavillettum signify a rent, duty, or service, yielded or done to the king or any other lord.
Gage
Contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt; a pawn. Hence mortgage is a dead pledge.
Gager del ley
Wager of law.
Gain
The word is used as synonymous with profits.
Gainage
Old English law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of soke men and villeins, and sometimes the land itself, or the profits raised by cultivating it.
Gallon
Gallows
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death.
Game
Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Animals; Ferae natural
Gaming
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which the parties make of the thing played for, under certain. conditions.
Gaming houses
Criminal law. Houses kept for the purpose of pemitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices.
Ganancial
Spanish law. A term which in Spanish signifies nearly the same as acquets. Bienes gananciales are thus defined: " Aquellos que el marido y la muger o cualquiera de los dos adquieren o aumentan durante el matrimonio por compra o otro contrato, 6 mediante su trabajo e industria, como tambien los frutos de los bienos proprios que cada uno elevo al matrimonio, et de los que subsistiendo este adquieran para si por cualquier titulo.This is a species of community; the property of which it is formed belongs in common to the two consorts, and, on the dissolution of the marriage, is divisible between them in equal shares. It is confined to their future acquisition durante el matrimonio, and the frutos, or rents and profits of the other property.
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