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  • GESTIO
    In the civil law. Behavior or conduct. Management or transaction. Negotiorum gestio, the doing of another's business; an interference in the affairs of another in his absence, from benevolence or friendship, and without authority. Dig. 3, 5, 45; Id. 46, 3, 12, 4; 2 Kent, Comm. 616, note. -Gestio pro More...
  • GESTOR
    In the civil law. One who acts for another, or transacts another's business. Calvin.
  • GESTU ET FAMA
    An ancient and obsolete writ resorted to when a person's good behavior was impeached. Lamb. Eir. 1. 4, c. 14.
  • GESTUM
    Lat. In Roman law. A deed or act; a thing done. Some writers affected to make a distinction between "gestum" and "factum." But the best authorities pronounced this subtile and indefensible. Dig. 50, 16, 58.
  • GEVILLOURIS
    In old Scotch law. Gaolers. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 234.
  • GEWINEDA
    In Saxon law. The ancient convention of the people to decide a cause.
  • GEWITNESSA
    In Saxon and old English law. The giving of evidence.
  • GEWRITE
    In Saxon law. Deeds or charters; writings. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10.
  • GIBBET
    A gallows; the post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their bodies are exposed. It differs from a common gallows, in that it consists of one perpendicular post, from the top of which proceeds one arm, except it be a double gibbet, which Is formed in the shape More...
  • GIBBET LAW
    Lynch law; in particular a custom anciently prevailing in the parish of Halifax. England, by which the free burghers held a summary trial of any one accused of petit larceny, and if they found him guilty, ordered him to be decapitated.
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