A gild mer-ebant, or merchant gild; a gild, corporation, or company of merchants. 10 Coke, 30
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In old English law. Tax-able, tributary, or contributory; liable to pay tax or tribute. Cowell; Blount
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In Swedish law. The right to dispose of a woman in marriage; or the person possessing such right,—her father, if living, or, if he be dead, the mother
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A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to an-other. made gratuitously, and not upon auy consideration of blood or money. 2 Bl. Comm. 440 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 102; 2 Kent, Comm. 437. And see Ingram v. Colgan, 106 Cal. 113, 38 Pac. 315, 28 L. R. A. 187, 40 Am. St. Rep. 221; Gray v. Barton, 55 N. Y. 72, 14 Am. Rep. 181; williamson v. Johnson, 62 Vt. 378, 20 Atl. 279, 9 L. R. A. 277, 22 Am. St. Rep. 117; Flanders v. Blandy, 45 ohio St. 113, 12 N. E. 321
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The stream of water to a mill. Mon. Angl. tom. 3
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In Saxon law. Deeds or charters; writings. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10
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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 pro-ceeds one arm, except it be a double gibbet, which is formed in the shape of the Roman capital T. Enc. Loud
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In Saxon law. The ancient convention of the people to decide a cause
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In Saxon and old Eng-iish law. The giving of evidence
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Lat. In Roman law. A deed or act; a thing done. Some writers affected to make a distinction between “gcstum” and “factum:* But the best authorities pro-nouuced this subtile and indefensible. Dig. 50, 16, 58
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In old Scotch law. Gaolers. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 234
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In the civil law. one who acts for another, or transacts another’s busi-ness. Calvin
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An ancient and ob-solete writ resorted to when a person’s good behavior was impeached. Lamb. Eir. 1. 4, c. 14
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In medical jurisprudence. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carries the embryo or foetus in her uterus.
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In old English law. Ex-pense; reward; compensation; wealth. It is also used for a flne or compensation for an offense. 2 Mon. Angl. 973
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In Saxon law. A guest A name given to a stranger on the second night of his entertainment in another’s house. Twa-night gest
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A name given to the process of dividing a stnte or other territory into the authorized civil or political divl-sions, but with such a geographical arrange-ment as to accomplish a sinister or unlawful purpose, as, for instance, to secure a majority for a given political party in districts where the result would be otherwise if they were divided according to obvious natural lines, or to arrange school districts so that children of certain religions or nationalities shall be brought within one district and those of a different religion or nationality in another district. State v. whitford, 54 wis. 150, 11 N. W. 424
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In old English law. Finable; liable to be amerced at the discre-tion of the lord of a manor. Cowell
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In the civil law. offl-cers appointed to manage hospitals for the aged poor
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In the civil law. An institution or hospital for taking care of the old. Cod. 1, 3, 46, 1; Calvin
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Lat. Descended of the same stock, or from the same couple of an-cestors; of the whole or full blood. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 145
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Lat. A sprout of the earth. A young tree, so called
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In Saxon law. Greve, reve, or reeve; a ministerial oflicer of high antiq-ulty in England; answering to the grave or graf (grafio) of the early continental nations. The term was applied to various grades of officers, from the seitre-gerefa, shirc-grefe, or shire-rere, who had charge of the county, (and whose title aud office have been perpetuated in the modern “sheriff,”) down to the tun-gerefa, or town-reeve, and lower. Burrill
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