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Gauger
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GaugerAn officer appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
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.
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Gaoler
The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal custody of the placo where prisoners are kept.
Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
Garnish
1) English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners on his entrance into prison. 2) To garnish. To warn; to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir. Obsolete.
Garnishee
Practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and he has had notice of such attachment; he is so called because he has had warning or notice of the attachment.
Garnishment
A warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause in which he is not a party, for the information of the court, and explaining a cause. For example, in the practice of Pennsylvania, when an attachment issues against a debtor, in order to secure to the plaintiff a claim due by a, third person to such debtor, notice is given to such third person, which notice is a garnishment, and he is called the garnishee.
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Gavel
A tax, imposition or tribute; the same as gabel.
Gavelkind
Given to all the kindred, or the hold or tenure of a family, not the kind of tenure. English law. A tenure or custom annexed or belonging to land in Kent, by which the lands of the father are equally divided among all his sons, or the land of the brother among all his brothers, if he have no issue of his own.
Geld
Old English law. It signifies a fine or compensation for an offence; also, rent, money or tribute.
Gemote
An assembly. Wittena gemote, during the time of the Saxons in England, signified an assembly of wise men. The parliament.
Gender
That which designates the sexes.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
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.
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Gaoler
The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal custody of the placo where prisoners are kept.
Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
Garnish
1) English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners on his entrance into prison. 2) To garnish. To warn; to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir. Obsolete.
Garnishee
Practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and he has had notice of such attachment; he is so called because he has had warning or notice of the attachment.
Garnishment
A warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause in which he is not a party, for the information of the court, and explaining a cause. For example, in the practice of Pennsylvania, when an attachment issues against a debtor, in order to secure to the plaintiff a claim due by a, third person to such debtor, notice is given to such third person, which notice is a garnishment, and he is called the garnishee.
Gauger
Gavel
A tax, imposition or tribute; the same as gabel.
Gavelkind
Given to all the kindred, or the hold or tenure of a family, not the kind of tenure. English law. A tenure or custom annexed or belonging to land in Kent, by which the lands of the father are equally divided among all his sons, or the land of the brother among all his brothers, if he have no issue of his own.
Geld
Old English law. It signifies a fine or compensation for an offence; also, rent, money or tribute.
Gemote
An assembly. Wittena gemote, during the time of the Saxons in England, signified an assembly of wise men. The parliament.
Gender
That which designates the sexes.
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