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  • Gaol Delivery

    Definition of Gaol Delivery One of the commissions given to the Judges or commissioners of assize. It authorises them to try, and (if acquitted) to deliver from custody, every prisoner who shall be in gaol for some alleged crime when they arrive at the circuit town. See Assize Browse You might […]

  • Gardner V. Sheldon

    Definition of Gardner V. Sheldon ((1671), Vaughan, 259). Held, that a devise to B after the death of A gives A an estate for life by implication if B be heir-at-law of the testator; but no estate if he be not heir-atlaw. An heir-at-law cannot be disinherited except by necessary implication […]

  • Garnish

    Garnish in Europe Definition of Garnish (1) To warn. (2) To exact money from prisoners. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911): Garnish, a word meaning to fit out, equip, furnish, now particularly used of decoration or ornament. It is formed from the O. Fr. _garnisant_ or […]

  • Garnishee

    Definition of Garnishee A person in whose hands a debt has been attached. See Attachment Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Garnishee in the Dictionaries, Garnishee in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]

  • Garnishee Order

    Definition of Garnishee Order An order served on a garnishee attaching a debt in his hands. See Attachment Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Garnishee Order in the Dictionaries, Garnishee Order in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse […]

  • Garnons V. Knight

    Definition of Garnons V. Knight ((1826), 5 B. & C. 671). Held, that where a party to any instrument seals it arid declares in the presence of witnesses that he delivers it as his deed, but keeps it in his own possession, and there is nothing to show that the executing party did not intend…

  • Garrotting

    Definition of Garrotting Choking, in order to rob, etc. Punishable under the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 21, and the Garrotters Act, 1863 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Garrotting in the Dictionaries, Garrotting in our legal […]

  • Garter, Order Of

    Definition of Garter, Order Of The most distinguished order of knighthood. (K.G.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Garter, Order Of in the Dictionaries, Garter, Order Of in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]

  • Garth

    Definition of Garth An enclosure ; a yard ; a weir or dam Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Garth in the Dictionaries, Garth in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal […]

  • Garth V. Cotton

    Definition of Garth V. Cotton ((1750), 1 Ves. 524, 546). Garth, the father of the plaintiff, was tenant of lands for ninety-nine years, if he should so long live, without impeachment of waste, except voluntary waste ; remainder to trustees during his life to preserve contingent remainders ; […]