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  • GLOSSATOR
    In the civil law. A commentator or annotator. A term applied to the professors and teachers of the Roman law In the twelfth century, at the head of whom was Irnerlus. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 1 90.
  • GLOUCESTER, STATUTE OF
    The statute is the 6 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment, and was the first statute giving costs in actions.
  • GLOVE SILVER
    Extraordinary rewards formerly given to officers of courts; etc.; money formerly given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders are left for execution to the clerk of assize and judges' officers. Jacob.
  • GLOVES
    It was an ancient custom on a maiden assize, when there was no offender to be tried, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. It Is an immemorial custom to remove the glove from the right hand on taking oath. Wharton.
  • GLYN
    A hollow between two mountains; a valley or glen. Co. Litt 5b.
  • GO
    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...
  • GOAT, GOTE
    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...
  • GOD AND MY COUNTRY
    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...
  • GOD-BOTE
    An ecclesiastical or church fine paid for crimes and offenses committed against God. Cowell.
  • GOD-GILD
    That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob.
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