In Saxon law. Money or tribute. A mulct, compensation, value, price. Angeld was the single valne of a thing; twigeld, doable value, etc. So, weregeld was the val-ue of a man slain; orfgeld, that of a beast Brown. •
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In old English law. Neighborhood or adjoining district. CowelL
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In old English law. A country neighbor; an inhabitant of the same geb-urscript, or village. Cowell
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In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer boc land, (book-land or land held by charter.) The grantor was said to gebo-cjan the alienee. See 1 Reeve. Eng. Law, 10
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An officer of the English crown having the general management of the mines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Brlavel’s, subject, in some respects, to the control of the com-mlssioners of woods and forests. Ile grants gales to free miners in their proper order, accepts surrenders of gales, and keeps the registers required by the acts. There is a deputy-gaveller, who appears to exercise most of the gaveller’s functions. Sweet
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The official publication of the English government, also called the “Lon-don Gazette.” It is evidence of acts of state, and of everythlng done by the king in hls political capacity, orders of adjudica-tlon in bankruptcy are required to be pttb-llshed therein; and the production of a copy of the “Gazette,” containing a copy of tlie order of adjudication, is evidence of the fact Mozley & whitley
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An ancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent, obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. II. 2 Reeve, Eng. I4tw, c. 12, p. 298. See Emig v. Cunningham, 62 Md. 460
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A species of socage ten-ure common in Kent, In England, where the lands desceud to all the sons, or heirs of the nearest degree, together; may be disposed of by will; do not escheat for felony; may be aliened by the heir at the age of fifteen; and dower and curtesy is given of half the land. Stim. Law Gloss
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A gauge or gauging; a measure of the contents of any vessel
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ln English law. Custom; tribute ; toll; yearly rent; paymeut of revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-garcl, garel-fodder, etc. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 142a
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A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, bogs-heads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, aud to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure. There are also private gaugers In large sea-port towns, who are licensed by government to perform the same duties. Rapal. & L
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A term used in the English universities to denote double commons
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The measure of width of a rail-way, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet 8% Inches in Great Britain and America, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland
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L. Fr. wastel; wastel bread; the finest sort of wheat bread. Britt c. 30 i rfelham
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L. Fr. waste or nncultivat-ed ground. Brltt. c. 57
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In old Scotch law. ward-er. 1 Pltc. Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 8
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A temporary governor of the country. Blount. A bailiff or steward. Spelman
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In old English law. An amerciament or fine. Cowell
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A string or ribbon by which tlie stocking is held upon the leg. The mark of the highest order of English knighthood, ranking next after the nobility. This milita-ry order of knighthood is said to have been first instituted by Richard I., at the siege of Acre, where he caused twenty-six kDights who firmly stood by him to wear thongs of blue leather about their legs. It is also said to have been perfected by Edward III. and to have received some alterations, which were
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In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the for-tification of a city or camp, or for the orna-ment of a thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Cange; Cowell; Blount
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A method of inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals prac-tised in Spain, Portugal, aud some Spauish-American countries, consistiug in strangula-tion by means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the neck of the sufferer, sometimes with the variation that a sharpened screw is made to advance from the back of the apparatus and pierce the base of the brain. Also, popularly, any form of strangling resorted to to overcome resist-ance or induce unconsciousness, especially as a concomitant to highway robbery
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In old English law. Victuals, arms, and other Implements of war, necessary for the defense of a town or castle. Mat. Par. 1250
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