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In Saxon law. Money or tribute. A mulct, compensation, value, price. Angeld was the single valne of a thing; twigeld, doable value, […]

In old English law. Tax-able ; geldable Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Neighborhood or adjoining district. CowelL Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A country neighbor; an inhabitant of the same geb-urscript, or village. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

An Anglo-Saxon term, meaning “conveyed.” Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer boc land, (book-land or land held by charter.) The grantor was said to gebo-cjan the […]

An officer of the English crown having the general management of the mines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and […]

The official publication of the English government, also called the “Lon-don Gazette.” It is evidence of acts of state, and of everythlng […]

An ancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent, obsolete. The statute of gavelet […]

A species of socage ten-ure common in Kent, In England, where the lands desceud to all the sons, or heirs of the […]

A gauge or gauging; a measure of the contents of any vessel Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

ln English law. Custom; tribute ; toll; yearly rent; paymeut of revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, […]

A gauger. Lowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, bogs-heads, barrels and tierces of […]

A term used in the English universities to denote double commons Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The measure of width of a rail-way, fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet 8% Inches in Great Britain and America, and […]

L. Fr. wastel; wastel bread; the finest sort of wheat bread. Britt c. 30 i rfelham Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

L. Fr. waste or nncultivat-ed ground. Brltt. c. 57 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Scotch law. ward-er. 1 Pltc. Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 8 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A temporary governor of the country. Blount. A bailiff or steward. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. An amerciament or fine. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A string or ribbon by which tlie stocking is held upon the leg. The mark of the highest order of English knighthood, […]

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the for-tification of a city or camp, or for the orna-ment of a […]

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 […]

In old English law. Victuals, arms, and other Implements of war, necessary for the defense of a town or castle. Mat. Par. […]