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  • Great Seal

    Definition of Great Seal By the Union with Scotland Act, 1706, it is provided that there shall be one Great Seal for the United Kingdom, to be used for sealing writs to elect and summon the Parliament, and for sealing all treaties with foreign States, and all public arts, instruments and […]

  • Goodwin V. Rob Arts

    Definition of Goodwin V. Rob Arts ((1875), L. R. 10 Ex. 76). Trade or mercantile usage need not be existent from time immemorial. By the usage of trade, scrip issued here by the agents of a foreign Government had been treated for a long time as negotiable. Held, it was negotiable Browse You […]

  • Gregory V. Duke Of Brunswick

    Definition of Gregory V. Duke Of Brunswick ((1843), 1 C. & K. 24). Held, that it is a tort for persons to cause an actor to be dismissed from his employment by conspiring to hire, and hiring, persons to drive him off the stage by hissing and hooting him, irrespective of the merits of his…

  • Goodwright V. Davids

    Definition of Goodwright V. Davids (2 Cowp. 803). Per Lord Mansfield, C.J. : 14 Cases of forfeiture are not favoured in law, and when the forfeiture is once waived, the Court will not assist it. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Goodwright V. Davids […]

  • Gretna Green

    Definition of Gretna Green After Lord Hardwicke’s Act it was impossible to contract a valid marriage in England without either banns or special licence ; but in Scotland it continued to be the law that consent of the parties in the presence of witnesses was sufficient to constitute a valid […]

  • Gordon V. Street

    Definition of Gordon V. Street ([1899] 2 Q. B. 641). Whenever the consideration of the person with whom I am willing to contract enters as an element into the contract which I am willing to make, error with regard to the person destroys my consent, and consequently annuls the contract […]

  • Griffiths V. Vere

    Definition of Griffiths V. Vere ((1803), 9 Ves. 127). Held, that a trust by will for accumulation during a life, contrary to the Thellusson Act (39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 98), is good for twenty-one years by that statute Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription […]

  • Gorris V. Scott

    Definition of Gorris V. Scott ((1874), L. R. 9 Ex. 175). A statute passed for a specific purpose cannot be deemed to impose an additional liability in other respects.Sheep were lost at sea by being washed overboard, owing to neglect of statutory requirements as to the provision of pens for […]

  • Ground Rent

    Definition of Ground Rent See Rent Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Ground Rent in the Dictionaries, Ground Rent in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]

  • Governor, Colonial

    Definition of Governor, Colonial The representative of the Crown charged with the administration of the government of a colony or dominion.A Governor’s authority is expressly limited to the terms of his commission. He ran be sued in his own Courts or the High Courts for acts committed while in […]