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A gild mer-ebant, or merchant gild; a gild, corporation, or company of merchants. 10 Coke, 30 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In old English law. Tax-able, tributary, or contributory; liable to pay tax or tribute. Cowell; Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Swedish law. The right to dispose of a woman in marriage; or the person possessing such right,—her father, if living, or, […]

In Saxon law. A tax or tribute. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to an-other. made gratuitously, and not upon auy consideration of […]

The stream of water to a mill. Mon. Angl. tom. 3 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. Deeds or charters; writings. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A gallows; the post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their bodies are exposed. It differs from a common gallows, […]

In Saxon law. The ancient convention of the people to decide a cause Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon and old Eng-iish law. The giving of evidence Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In Roman law. A deed or act; a thing done. Some writers affected to make a distinction between “gcstum” and “factum:* […]

In old Scotch law. Gaolers. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 234 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. one who acts for another, or transacts another’s busi-ness. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An ancient and ob-solete writ resorted to when a person’s good behavior was impeached. Lamb. Eir. 1. 4, c. 14 Source: Black’s […]

In medical jurisprudence. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carries the embryo or foetus in her uterus. Source: Black’s […]

In the civil law. Behavior or conduct Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Ex-pense; reward; compensation; wealth. It is also used for a flne or compensation for an offense. 2 Mon. […]

In Saxon law. A guest A name given to a stranger on the second night of his entertainment in another’s house. Twa-night […]

A name given to the process of dividing a stnte or other territory into the authorized civil or political divl-sions, but with […]

In old English law. Finable; liable to be amerced at the discre-tion of the lord of a manor. Cowell Source: Black’s Law […]

In the civil law. offl-cers appointed to manage hospitals for the aged poor Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. An institution or hospital for taking care of the old. Cod. 1, 3, 46, 1; Calvin Source: Black’s […]

Lat. Descended of the same stock, or from the same couple of an-cestors; of the whole or full blood. Mackeld. Rom. Law, […]

Lat. A sprout of the earth. A young tree, so called Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. Greve, reve, or reeve; a ministerial oflicer of high antiq-ulty in England; answering to the grave or graf (grafio) […]