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Gleaning






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.

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Field
A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est.

May
To be permited; to be at liberty; to have the power.

Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer



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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
Contracts. He who makes a gift. By his gift, the giver always impliedly agrees with the donee that he will not revoke the gift.

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.

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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.

Glossator
A commentator or annotator of the Roman law. One of the authors of the Gloss.

Gloucester, statute of
An English statute, so called, because it was passed at Gloucester. There were other statutes made at Gloucester, which do not bear this name.

Go without day
These words have a technical sense. When a party is dismissed the court, he is said to go without day; that is, there is no day appointed for him to appear again.

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