Legal Term Dictionary

A hollow between two mountains; a valley or glen. Co. Litt 5b.

A hollow between two mountains; a valley or glen. Co. Litt 5b. Less...

To be dismissed from a court. To issue from a court "The court said a mandamus must go" 1 W. Bl. 50. "Let a supersedeas go." 5 Mod. 421. "The writ may go" 18 C. B. 35. -Go bail. To assume the responsibility of a surety on a bail-bond.-Go hence. More...

To be dismissed from a court. To issue from a court "The court said a mandamus must go" 1 W. Bl. 50. "Let a supersedeas go." 5 Mod. 421. "The writ may go" 18 C. B. 35. -Go bail. To assume the responsibility of a surety on a bail-bond.-Go hence. To depart from the court; with the further implication that a suitor who is directed to "go hence" is dismissed from further attendance upon the court in respect to the suit or proceeding which brought him there, and that he Is finally denied the relief which he sought or, as the case may be, absolved from the liability sought to be imposed upon him. See Hiatt v. Kinkaid. 40 Neb. 178. 58 N. W. 700.-Go to. In a statute, will, or other instrument a direction that property shall "go to" a designated person means that it shall pass or proceed to such person, vest in and belong to him. In re IiitchW Estate, 43 Misc. Rep. 485. 89 N. Y. Supp. 472; Plass v. Plass, 121 Cal. 131, 53 Pac. 448.-Go to protest. Commercial paper is said to "go to protest" when it is dishonored by non-payment or non-acceptance and is handed to a notary for protest.-Go withont day. Words used to denote that a party is dismissed the court. He is said to go without day, because there Is no day appointed for him to appear again. Less...

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callls describes goats as "usual engines erected and built with portcullises and doors of timber and stone or brick. Invented first in Lower Germany." Cailis, Sewers. (9L) 112, 113.. Cowell defines "gote," More...

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callls describes goats as "usual engines erected and built with portcullises and doors of timber and stone or brick. Invented first in Lower Germany." Cailis, Sewers. (9L) 112, 113.. Cowell defines "gote," a ditch, sewer, or gutter. Less...

The answer made by a prisoner, when arraigned, in answer to the question, "How will you be tried?" In the ancient practice he had the choice (as appears by the question) whether to submit to the trial by ordeal (by God) or to be tried by a Jury, (by the More...

The answer made by a prisoner, when arraigned, in answer to the question, "How will you be tried?" In the ancient practice he had the choice (as appears by the question) whether to submit to the trial by ordeal (by God) or to be tried by a Jury, (by the country;) and U is probable that the original form of the answer was, "By God or my country," whereby the prisoner averred his innocence by declining neither of the modes of trial. Less...

An ecclesiastical or church fine paid for crimes and offenses committed against God. Cowell.

An ecclesiastical or church fine paid for crimes and offenses committed against God. Cowell. Less...

That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob.

That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob. Less...

In old English law. Earnest-money; money given as evidence of the completion of a bargain. This name is probably derived from the fact that such money was given to the church or distributed in alms.

In old English law. Earnest-money; money given as evidence of the completion of a bargain. This name is probably derived from the fact that such money was given to the church or distributed in alms. Less...

An old form of the word "cucking-stool," (q. v.) Cowell.

An old form of the word "cucking-stool," (q. v.) Cowell. Less...

In various compound phrases (as those which follow) this term Implies either motion, progress, active operation, or present and continuous validity and efficacy. -Goine; before tbe wind. In the language of manners and In the rules of navigation, a vessel is said to be going "before the wind" when the More...

In various compound phrases (as those which follow) this term Implies either motion, progress, active operation, or present and continuous validity and efficacy. -Goine; before tbe wind. In the language of manners and In the rules of navigation, a vessel is said to be going "before the wind" when the wind is free as respects her course, that is, comes from behind tbe vessel or over the stern, so that her yards may be braced square across. She is said to "going off large" when she has the wind free on either tack, that is, when it blows from some point abaft the beam or from the quarter. Hall v. The Buffalo, 11 Fed. Cas. 216; Ward v. The Fashion, 29 Fed. Cas. 188.'-Going; concern. A firm or corporation which, though embarrassed or even insolvent, continues to transact its ordinary business. White, etc., Mfa. Co. v. Pettes Importing Co. (C. C.) 30 Fed. 865; Corey v. Wadsworth. 99 Ala. 68, 11 South. 350, 23 L. R. A. 618, 42 Am. St. Rep. 55.-Going: off large. See "GOING BEFORE THE WIND," -supra.-Going price. The prevalent price; the current market value of the article in question at the time and place of sale. Kelsea v. Haines, 41 N. H. 254.-Going through tbe bar. The act of the chief of an. English common-law court in demanding of every o member of the bar, in order of seniority, if he has anything to move. This was done at the sitting of the court each day in term, except special oaper days, crown paper days in the queen's bench, and revenue paper days in the exchequer. On the last day of term this order is reversed, the first and second time round. In tbe exchequer the postman and tubman are first called on. Wharton.-Going to the country. When a party, under the common-law system of pleading, finished his pleading by the words "and of this he puts himself upon the country," this was called "going to the country." It was the essential termination to a pleading which took issue upon a material fact in the preceding pleading. Wharton.- Going value. As applied to the property or plant of a manufacturing or industrial corporation,, a public-service corporation, etc., this means the value which arises from having an established business which is in active operation. It is an element of value over and above the replacement cost of the plant, and may represent the increment arising from previous labor, effort, or expenditure in working up business, acquiring good will, and successfully adapting property and plant to the intended use. See Cedar Rapids Water Co. v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234. 91 N. W. 1081.-Going witness. One who is about to take his departure from the jurisdiction of the court, although only into a state or country under the general sovereignty; as from one to another of the United States, or from England to Scotland. Less...

A mine. Blount. A sink or passage for water. Cowell.

A mine. Blount. A sink or passage for water. Cowell. Less...