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  • GUARDIANUS
    A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman.
  • GUARNIMENTUM
    In old European law. A provision of necessary things. Spelman. A furnishing or garnishment
  • GUASTALD
    One who had the custody of the royal mansions.
  • GUBERNATOR
    Lat. In Roman law. The pilot or steersman of a ship.
  • GUERPI, GUERPY
    L. Fr. Abandoned; left; deserted. Britt c 33.
  • GUERRA, GUERRE
    War. Spelman.
  • GUERILLA PARTY
    In military law. An Independent body of marauders or armed men, not regularly or organically connected with the armies' of either belligerent who carry on a species of irregular war, chiefly by depredation and massacre.
  • GUEST
    A traveler who lodges at an inn pr tavern with the consent of the keeper. Bac. Abr. "Inns," C, 5; 8 Coke, 32; Mc-Daniels v. Robinson, 26 Vt. 316, 62 Am. Dec. 574; Johnson v. Reynolds, 3 Kan. 261; Shoecraft v. Bailey, 25 Iowa, 555; Beale v. Posey, 72 Ala. More...
  • GUEST-TAKER
    An agister; one who took cattle in to feed in the royal forests. Cowell.
  • GUET
    In old French law. Watch. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit 6.
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