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Gross weight
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Gross weightThe total weight of goods or merchandise, with the chests, bags, and the like, from which. are to be deducted tare and tret.
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Total
Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he has no will.
Merchandise
By this term is understood all those things which merchants sell either wholesale or retail, as dry goods, hardware, groceries, drugs, &c. It is usually applied to personal chattels only, and to those which are not required for food or immediate support, but such as remain after having been used or which are used only by a slow consumption.
Tare
weights. An allowance in the purchase and sale of merchandise, for the weight of the box, bag, or cask, or other thing, in which the goods are packed. It is also an allowance made for tiny defect, waste, or diminution in the weight, quality or quantity of goods.
Tret
Weights and measures. An allowance made for the water or
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Gros bois
Gros bois or grosse bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
Gross
Absolute; entire, not depending on another.
Gross adventure
By this term the French lay writers signify a maritime loan, or bottomry. (q, v.) It is so called because the lender exposes his money to the perils of the sea; and contributes to the gross or general average
Gross average
Maritim law. That kind of average which falls on the ship, cargo, and freight, and. is distinguished from particular average.
Gross negligence
Lata culpa, or, as the Roman lawyers most accurately call it) dolo proxima, is, in practice, considered as equivalent to dolus or fraud itself, and consists, according to the best interpreters, in the omission of that care which even inattentive and thoughtless men never fail to take of their own property. It must not be confounded, however, with fraud, for it may exist consistently with good faith and honesty of intention, according to common law authorities.
Grosse bois
Grosse bois or gros bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
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Gros bois
Gros bois or grosse bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
Gross
Absolute; entire, not depending on another.
Gross adventure
By this term the French lay writers signify a maritime loan, or bottomry. (q, v.) It is so called because the lender exposes his money to the perils of the sea; and contributes to the gross or general average
Gross average
Maritim law. That kind of average which falls on the ship, cargo, and freight, and. is distinguished from particular average.
Gross negligence
Lata culpa, or, as the Roman lawyers most accurately call it) dolo proxima, is, in practice, considered as equivalent to dolus or fraud itself, and consists, according to the best interpreters, in the omission of that care which even inattentive and thoughtless men never fail to take of their own property. It must not be confounded, however, with fraud, for it may exist consistently with good faith and honesty of intention, according to common law authorities.
Gross weight
Grosse bois
Grosse bois or gros bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
Ground rent
Estates. In Pennsylvania, this term is used to signify a perpetual rent issuing out of some real estate. This rent is redeemable where there is a covenant in the deed that, before the expiration of a period therein named, it may be redeemed by the payment of a certain sum of money; or it is irredeemable, when there is no such agreement; and, in the latter case, it cannot be redeemed without the consent of both parties.
Groundage
Maritim law. The consideration paid for standing a ship in a port
Grounds
A legal basis for a divorce.
Guarantee
Contracts. He lo whom a guaranty is made.
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Total
Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he has no will.
Merchandise
By this term is understood all those things which merchants sell either wholesale or retail, as dry goods, hardware, groceries, drugs, &c. It is usually applied to personal chattels only, and to those which are not required for food or immediate support, but such as remain after having been used or which are used only by a slow consumption.
Tare
weights. An allowance in the purchase and sale of merchandise, for the weight of the box, bag, or cask, or other thing, in which the goods are packed. It is also an allowance made for tiny defect, waste, or diminution in the weight, quality or quantity of goods.
Tret
Weights and measures. An allowance made for the water or
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Gros bois
Gros bois or grosse bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
Gross
Absolute; entire, not depending on another.
Gross adventure
By this term the French lay writers signify a maritime loan, or bottomry. (q, v.) It is so called because the lender exposes his money to the perils of the sea; and contributes to the gross or general average
Gross average
Maritim law. That kind of average which falls on the ship, cargo, and freight, and. is distinguished from particular average.
Gross negligence
Lata culpa, or, as the Roman lawyers most accurately call it) dolo proxima, is, in practice, considered as equivalent to dolus or fraud itself, and consists, according to the best interpreters, in the omission of that care which even inattentive and thoughtless men never fail to take of their own property. It must not be confounded, however, with fraud, for it may exist consistently with good faith and honesty of intention, according to common law authorities.
Grosse bois
Grosse bois or gros bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
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Gros bois
Gros bois or grosse bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
Gross
Absolute; entire, not depending on another.
Gross adventure
By this term the French lay writers signify a maritime loan, or bottomry. (q, v.) It is so called because the lender exposes his money to the perils of the sea; and contributes to the gross or general average
Gross average
Maritim law. That kind of average which falls on the ship, cargo, and freight, and. is distinguished from particular average.
Gross negligence
Lata culpa, or, as the Roman lawyers most accurately call it) dolo proxima, is, in practice, considered as equivalent to dolus or fraud itself, and consists, according to the best interpreters, in the omission of that care which even inattentive and thoughtless men never fail to take of their own property. It must not be confounded, however, with fraud, for it may exist consistently with good faith and honesty of intention, according to common law authorities.
Gross weight
Grosse bois
Grosse bois or gros bois. Such wood as, by the common law or custom, is reputed timber.
Ground rent
Estates. In Pennsylvania, this term is used to signify a perpetual rent issuing out of some real estate. This rent is redeemable where there is a covenant in the deed that, before the expiration of a period therein named, it may be redeemed by the payment of a certain sum of money; or it is irredeemable, when there is no such agreement; and, in the latter case, it cannot be redeemed without the consent of both parties.
Groundage
Maritim law. The consideration paid for standing a ship in a port
Grounds
A legal basis for a divorce.
Guarantee
Contracts. He lo whom a guaranty is made.
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