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  • GAZETTE
    The official publication of the English government, also called the "London Gazette." It is evidence of acts of state, and of everything done by the king in his political capacity. Orders of adjudication in bankruptcy are required to be published therein; and the production of a copy of the "Gazette," More...
  • GEBOCCED
    An Anglo-Saxon term, meaning "conveyed."
  • GEBOCIAN
    In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer boc land, (book-land or land held by charter.) The grantor was said to gebocian the alienee. See 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10.
  • GEBURSCRIPT
    In old English law. Neighborhood or adjoining district. Cowell.
  • GEBURUS
    In old English law. A country neighbor; an inhabitant of the same geburscript, or village. Cowell.
  • GELD
    In Saxon law. Money or tribute. A mulct, compensation, value, price Angeld was the single value of a thing; twigeld, double value, etc. So, weregeld was the value of a man slain; orfgeld, that of a beast. Brown.
  • GELDABILIS
    In old English law. Taxable ; geldable.
  • GELDABLE
    Liable to pay geld; liable to be taxed. Kelham.
  • GELDING
    A horse that has been castrated, and which is thus distinguished from the horse in his natural and unaltered condition. A "ridgling" (a half-castrated horse) is not a gelding, but a horse, within the denomination of animals in the statutes. Brisco v. State, 4 Tex. App. 219, 30 Am. Rep. More...
  • GEMMA
    Lat. In the civil law. A gem; a precious stone. Gems were distinguished by their transparency; such as emeralds, chrysolites, amethysts. Dig. 34, 2, 19, IT.
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