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  • 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.
  • GUIA
    In Spanish law. A right of way for narrow carts. White, New Recop. L 2, c 6, " 1.
  • GUIDAGE
    In old English law. That which was given for safe conduct through a strange territory, or another's territory. Cowell. The office of guiding of travelers through dangerous and unknown ways. 2 Inst. 526V
  • GUIDE-PLATE
    An iron or steel plate to be attached to a rail for the purpose ot guiding to their place on the rail wheels thrown off the track. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1291.
  • GUIDON DE LA MER
    The name of a treatise on maritime law, by an unknown author, supposed to have been written about 1671 at Rouen, and considered, in continental Europe, as a work of high authority.
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