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  • GASTINE
    L. Fr. Waste or uncultivated ground. Britt. c. 57.
  • GAUDIES
    A term used in the English universities to denote double commons.
  • GAUGE
    The measure of width of a rail way, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet 8 1/2 inches in Great Britain and America, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland.
  • GAUGEATOR
    A gauger. Lowell.
  • GAUGER
    A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure. There are also private gaugers in large seaport towns, who are More...
  • GAUGETUM
    A gauge or gauging; a measure of the contents of any vessel.
  • GAVEL
    In English law. Custom; tribute ; toll; yearly rent; payment of revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-gavch gavel-fodder, etc. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 142a. -Gavelbred. Rent reserved in bread, corn, or provision; rent payable in kind. Cowell. -Gaveloester. A certain measure More...
  • GAVELET
    An ancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. II. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 12, p. 208. See Emig v. Cunningham, 62 Md. 460.
  • GAVELKIND
    A species of socage tenure common in Kent, in England, where the lands descend to all the sons, or heirs of the nearest degree, together; may be disposed of o by will; do not escheat for felony; may be aliened by the heir at the age of fifteen; and dower More...
  • GAVELLER
    An officer of the English crown having the general management of the mines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Briavers, subject, in some respects, to the control of the commissioners of woods and forests. He grants gales to free miners in their proper order, More...
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