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  • GAINOR
    In old English law. A soke-man; one who occupied or cultivated arable land. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.
  • GAJUM
    A thick wood. Spelman.
  • GALE
    The payment of a rent, tax, duty, or annuity. A gale is the right to open and work a mine within the Hundred of St. Briavel's, or a stone quarry within the open lands of the Forest of Dean. The right is a license or interest in the nature of More...
  • GALEA
    In old records. A piratical vessel; a galley.
  • GALENES
    In old Scotch law. Amends or compensation for slaughter. Bell.
  • GALI-HALFPENCE
    A kind of coin which, with suskins and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.
  • GALLIVOLATIUM
    A cock-shoot, or cock-glade.
  • GALLON
    A liquid measure, containing 231 cubic inches, or four quarts. The imperial gallon contains about 277, and the ale gallon 282, cubic inches. Hollender v. Ma-gone (C. C.) 38 Fed. 914; Nichols v. Beard (C. C.) 15 Fed. 437.
  • GALLOWS
    A scaffold; a beam laid over either one or two posts, from which malefactors are hanged.
  • GAMACTA
    In old European law. A stroke or blow. Spelman.
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