Tag: GA
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Game
Definition of Game Wild animals, the hunting or taking of which is a sport. In the Game Laws, game consists of hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black-game and bustards.The right to kill game upon any land is vested in the occupier, unless he holds it under a lease or […]
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Gaming
Definition of Gaming To play at any game of chance, whether lawful or unlawful, for money or money’s worth. At common law money won at any game could be recovered by action. By the Gaming Act, 1845, all contracts by way of gaming or wagering are null and void ; and money so lost cannot…
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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…
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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 […]
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Ganga Singh Bikaner
Ganga Singh Bikaner in Europe Sir Ganga Singh Bikaner, Maraha, (1880-1943), Indian soldier and statesman, was born Oct. 3 1880, and succeeded by adoption his elder brother, Dungar Singh, in 1887 as 21st ruler of the state. After education at the Mayo College, Ajmere, he was invested with […]