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  • GANANCIAL PROPERTY
    In Spanish law. A species of community in property enjoyed by husband and wife, the property being divisible between them equally on a dissolution of the marriage. 1 Burge, Confl. Law, 418. See Cartwright v. Cartwright, 18 Tex. 634; Cutter v. Waddingham, 22 Mo. 254.
  • GANANCIAS
    In Spanish law. Gains or profits resulting from the employment of property held by husband and wife in common. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5.
  • GANG-WEEK
    The time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone -over by the parish officers,-rogation week. Enc. Lond.
  • GANGIATORI
    Officers in ancient times whose business it was to examine weights and measures. Skene.
  • GANTELOPE
    (pronounced "gauntlett") A military punishment, in which the criminal running between the ranks receives a lash from each man. Enc. Lond. This was called "running the gauntlett."
  • GAOL
    A prison for temporary confinement; a jail; a place for the confinement of offenders against the law. There is said to be a distinction between "gaol" and "prison;" the former being a place for temporary or provisional confinement, or for the punishment of the lighter offenses and misdemeanors, while the More...
  • GAOL DELIVERY
    In criminal law. The delivery or clearing of a gaol of the prisoners confined therein, by trying them. In popular speech, the clearing of a gaol by the escape of the prisoners. -General gaol delivery. In English law. At the assises (q. v.) the judges sit bv virtue of five More...
  • GARANDIA, OR GARANTIA
    A warranty. Spelman.
  • GARANTIE
    In French law. This word corresponds to warranty or covenants for title in English law. In the case of a sale this garantie extends to two things: (1) Peaceful possession of the thing sold; and (2) absence of undisclosed defects, (defauts caches.) Brown.
  • GARATHINX
    In old Lombardic law. A gift; a free or absolute gift; a gift of the whole of a thing. Spelman.
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