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Giver
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GiverContracts. He who makes a gift. By his gift, the giver always impliedly agrees with the donee that he will not revoke the gift.
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Gift
1) Conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of the conveyance; so that a feoffment or grant may be called a gift when gratuitous. A gift is of the same nature as a settlement; neither denotes a form of assurance, but the nature of the transaction. 2) Contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person who accepts it, without any consideration. It differs from a grant, sale, or barter in this, that in each of these cases there must be a consideration, and a gift, as the definitionstates, must be without consideration.
Giver
Contracts. He who makes a gift. By his gift, the giver always impliedly agrees with the donee that he will not revoke the gift.
Donee
He to whom a gift is made, or a bequest given; one who is invested with a power to select an appointee, he is sometimes called an appointer.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Revoke
To cancel or nullify a legal document.
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Gift over
A device used in wills and trusts to provide for the gift of property to a second recipient if a certain event occurs, such as the death of the first recipient. For example, I give you my car but on your death you must give it to your child; that is a gift over to the benefit of your child.
Giftoman
Swedish law. He who has a right to dispose of a woman in marriage.
Gill
A measure of capacity, equal to one-fourth of a pint.
Girantem
Merchant law. . An Italian word, which signifies the drawer. It is derived from, girare, to draw, in the same manner as the English verb to murder, is transformed into murdrare in our old indictments.
Girth
A girth or yard is a measure of length. The word is of Saxon origin, taken from the circumference of the human body. Girth is contracted from girdeth, and signifies as much as girdle.
Giver
Giving in payment
This term is used in Louisiana; it signifies that a debtor, instead of paying a debt he owes in money, satisfies his creditor by giving in payment a movable or immovable.
Gladius
In our old Latin authors, and in the Norman laws, this word was used to signify supreme jurisdiction, jus gladii.
Gleaning
The act of gathering such grain in a field where it grew, as may, have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered.
Glebe
Ecclesiastic law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. In the civil law it signified the soil of an inheritance; there were serfs of the glebe, called gleboe addicti.
Gloss
Interpretation, comment, explanation, or remark, intended to illustrate the text of an author.
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Gift
1) Conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of the conveyance; so that a feoffment or grant may be called a gift when gratuitous. A gift is of the same nature as a settlement; neither denotes a form of assurance, but the nature of the transaction. 2) Contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person who accepts it, without any consideration. It differs from a grant, sale, or barter in this, that in each of these cases there must be a consideration, and a gift, as the definitionstates, must be without consideration.
Giver
Contracts. He who makes a gift. By his gift, the giver always impliedly agrees with the donee that he will not revoke the gift.
Donee
He to whom a gift is made, or a bequest given; one who is invested with a power to select an appointee, he is sometimes called an appointer.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Revoke
To cancel or nullify a legal document.
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Gift over
A device used in wills and trusts to provide for the gift of property to a second recipient if a certain event occurs, such as the death of the first recipient. For example, I give you my car but on your death you must give it to your child; that is a gift over to the benefit of your child.
Giftoman
Swedish law. He who has a right to dispose of a woman in marriage.
Gill
A measure of capacity, equal to one-fourth of a pint.
Girantem
Merchant law. . An Italian word, which signifies the drawer. It is derived from, girare, to draw, in the same manner as the English verb to murder, is transformed into murdrare in our old indictments.
Girth
A girth or yard is a measure of length. The word is of Saxon origin, taken from the circumference of the human body. Girth is contracted from girdeth, and signifies as much as girdle.
Giver
Giving in payment
This term is used in Louisiana; it signifies that a debtor, instead of paying a debt he owes in money, satisfies his creditor by giving in payment a movable or immovable.
Gladius
In our old Latin authors, and in the Norman laws, this word was used to signify supreme jurisdiction, jus gladii.
Gleaning
The act of gathering such grain in a field where it grew, as may, have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered.
Glebe
Ecclesiastic law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. In the civil law it signified the soil of an inheritance; there were serfs of the glebe, called gleboe addicti.
Gloss
Interpretation, comment, explanation, or remark, intended to illustrate the text of an author.
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