GABEL GAMING Gabel. Same as Gavel. Gabella. Same as Gabel. Gablum. Same as Gavel. Gafolgild. The payment of tribute. Gafol-land. Land liable to gafolgild. Gag. Something forced into one's mouth to prevent outcry. Gage. A A pledge; to pledge; to wage; to challenge. Gage, Estates in. Estates held in pledge. Gager. To pledge; to wage; an officer charged with the duty of measuring the contents of casks. Gager de deliverance. To give pledge for the delivery up of distrained goods after action brought. Gager del ley. Wager of law, which see. Gain. Profit; acquisition; benefit. See 86 App. Div. 405, 83 N. Y. Supp. 849. Gainage. The gain or profit in crops; beasts of the plough. Gainery. Tillage; profits thereof. Gale. A wind blowing at 40 to 70 miles an hour (see 65 Kan. 390, 58 L. R. A. 399, 69 Pac. 338); the payment of interest, rent or taxes. Gales. Wales. Gallows. A framework of two upright posts and a bar across from which capital criminals are hanged. Gallows-tree. A gallows. Galravage. Same as Gilravage. Gamacta. An assault; a battery. Gamalis. A legitimate child; a child of betrothed parents. Gamble. To play any game of chance for a stake; to wager for G a stake. See 113 Mass. 193, 18 Am. Rep. 466. Gambling contract. One wherein the parties stake their property or money on an event which in its nature may or may not happen and whereby one is to lose and the other to win. See 113 Ala. 120, 36 L. R. A. 81, 21 South. 409. See, also, 79 Tex. 543, 23 Am. St. Rep. 363, 15 S. W. 569. Gambling device. Anything so used in gambling that the event depends more upon chance than skill. See 18 Fed. (U. S.) 253, 9 Saw. 333. Gambling policy. A life insurance policy, the beneficiary named in which has no insurable interest in the life of the insured. Gambling verdict. A jury's verdict reached after agreeing to leave it to some chance, as by tossing a coin, and so doing. See 83 Tenn. 133. Game. Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen, including wild bees and fish. Am. & Eng. Ency. See 51 S. C. 51, 38 L. R. A. 561, 28 S. E. 15. Game laws. Laws regulating the open and closed seasons for hunting wild game. Game warden. Same as Gamekeeper. Gamekeeper. One employed to guard game in a preserve and against poachers. Game-preserve. A private park stocked with game for hunting. Gaming. An agreement to risk money or property in a contest or chance where one may be gainer and the other loser. See 33 Am. Dec. 134, note. GAMING Gaming device. See Gambling device. Gaming-house. One furnished with means and facilities for gambling to which the public is tempted, invited or permitted to attend for the purpose of gambling. See 151 Mo. 566, 74 Am. St. Rep. 571, 52 S. W. 365. Gaming-room. A room maintained for gambling or gaming. Ganancial property. (Spanish) Community property of husband and wife. See 18 Tex. 626. Ganancias. (Spanish) Income of community property. Gang. Current as money. Gangiatori. Ancient officers of weights and measures. Gang-days. Same as Gang-week. GARSUMNE keeping the worn ones in circulation. Gard. A guardianship; care; custody.. Garde. Same as Gard. Garene. A warren, which see. Garnishee process. Same as Garnishment. Garnisher. One who garnishes. Garnishing process. Same as garnishment. Garnishment. An attachment whereby money or property of a debtor in the hands of third parties, which cannot be levied upon, may be subjected to the payment of the creditor's claim. See 37 Neb. 849, 40 Am. St. Rep. 522, 56 N. W. 711. A warning; the act of garnishing. Garote. Same as Garrote. Garrant. A warrant. Gavelbred. Rent paid in produce. Gaveled. Held by gavelkind tenure. Gavelet. An ancient writ for a landlord for collection of rent from his tenant. See 62 Md. 458. Gavelgeld. Yearly profit, toll, or tribute; the subject thereof. Gavelherte. Customary service of ploughing. Gaveling men. Tenants who paid rent and rendered customary services. Gavelkind. An old socage tenure by rent paid in money, services (other than military), or produce; the land held thereby; an estate in land descending to all the sons who could partition their several interests or dispose thereof when fifteen years old. See, also, Irish Gavelkind. Gaveller. A royal appointee who had charge of coal mining in certain districts in England. GENERAL Gavelmed. Customary service of mowing meadows. Gavelrep. The service of reaping at the command of the lord. Gavelwerk. Customary services by manual labor or with carts. Gazette. A British official newspaper announcing declarations of bankruptcy, official promotions and public events; to publish anything therein. Gebocced. Conveyed.-Black. Gebur. One owning an allotment of land. Geburscript. A village. Geld. A fine; a tribute. Taxable.-Black. Genealogy. The tracing of one's de- Gener. A son-in-law. General. Prevalent but not uni- One who administers the whole of a decedent's estate either under a statute of distribution or under a will. See 40 Ala. 189. General agent. An agent who is authorized to do all acts connected with a particular business or in a particular place. See 157 Ill. 554, 48 Am. St. Rep. 341, 41 N. E. 888. GENERAL General appearance. An appearance without reservation or qualification. See Appearance. General assignment. A debtor's transfer of all his property in trust for the benefit of all of his creditors. See 85 N. Y. 516, 39 Am. Rep. 674. General assumpsit. Same as Indebitatus Assumpsit. General average. That contribution which is made by all who are parties to the same adventure toward a loss arising out of extraordinary sacrifices made, or extraordinary of expenses incurred, by some them, for the common benefit of the ship and cargo. See 3 Wall. (U. S.) 347, 18 L. Ed. 155. General credit. A witness' general reputation for veracity. General creditor. A creditor who has no lien on property of the debtor. See 5 N. M. 442, 8 L. R. A. 691, 23 Pac. 780. General criminal intent. That intent which the law presumes from the voluntary commission of an unlawful act without justification or excuse. General custom. One which prevails throughout a country and becomes the law thereof and whose existence is to be determined by the court. See 23 Me. 90, 39 Am. Dec. 611. General damages. Those necessarily resulting. General demurrer. A demurrer specifying that the pleading demurred to does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action or a defense, as the case may be. See 63 Neb. 713, 89 N. W. 256. General denial. A pleading or answer which traverses all material allegations of the pleading at which it is directed. See 146 Ind. GENERAL 509, 58 Am. St. Rep. 367, 36 L. R.. A. 59, 45 N. E. 702. General deposit. One which is to be repaid on demand, in money. See 19 Am. Dec. 418, note. General devise. One which fails to specify the quantity of the estate devised. See 8 Houst. (Del.) 334, 2 L. R. A. 724, 16 Atl. 558. General executor. One appointed to administer the whole of an estate. General guaranty. One for the acceptance of the public generally. See 101 Wis. 193, 70 Am. St. Rep. 907, 77 N. W. 182. General guardian. A guardian of the person of the ward or of all of the ward's property within the jurisdiction, or of both. General heir. See Heir general. General hypothecation. Hypothecation by a debtor of all his property for the benefit of his creditors. General indorsement. One wherein no payee is named. General issue. A plea or answer the effect of which is to traverse or deny all the material allegations of the declaration or complaint. See 94 Md. 290, 50 Atl. 1046. General judgment. A judgment in personam. See 69 N. J. L. 365, 55 Atl. 805. General law. A law affecting all persons or things of a given class, order, genus or kind. See 21 Am. St. Rep. 780, note. General legacy. One the bequest whereof does not describe specific chattels or money. See 6 N. J. L. 133, 10 Am. Dec. 392. General lien. The right to retain the property of another to cover and secure a general balance of account against him. See 37 Am. Dec. 522, note. GENERAL General malice. General desire to injure mankind, as distinguished from ill will toward a particular person. See 117 N. C. 393, 53 Am. St. Rep. 590, 23 S. E. 428. General ownership. Such unqualified dominion over a thing that it belongs to the owner exclusively. See 74 N. Y. 568. General partnership. One wherein all the business is carried on for the joint profit of all the partners. See 3 Fed. Cas. (U. S.) 349, 1 Cliff. (U. S.) 28. General power. A power to appoint whomsoever the donee pleases. See 3 Whart. (Penn.) 287, 31 Am. Dec. 502. General restraint of trade. A prohibition in an agreement against carrying on a specified business or occupation anywhere. See 3 Pinn. (Wis.) 123, 56 Am. Dec. 164. General ship. One in which the masters or owners engage separately with a number of persons unconnected with each other to convey their respective goods to the place of the ship's destination. See 6 Cow. (N. Y.) 173, 16 Am. Dec. 437. General verdict. One that finds in favor of the plaintiff or the defendant on all the issues or any one of them. See 8 Ga. 201, 52 Am. Dec. 393. Generale dictum generaliter est interpretandum. A general statement should be interpreted generally. Generale nihil certum implicat. A general expression implies nothing certain. Generale tantum valet in generalibus, quantum singulare in singulis. That which is general prevails in general matters, as that which is particular in particular matters. GEORGE I Generalia praecedunt; specialia sequuntur. General matters precede; special matters follow. Generalia specialibus non derogant. General words do not derogate from special ones. See 97 Tenn. 697, 34 L. R. A. 541, 37 S. W. 689. Generalia sunt praeponenda singularibus. General matters should not be placed before particular ones. Generalia verba sunt generaliter intelligenda. General words are to be interpreted generally. Generalibus specialia derogant. Special words derogate general ones. Generalis clausula non porrigitur ad ea quae antea specialiter sunt comprehensa. A general clause is not extended to include those things which have been previously specially included. Generalis regula generaliter est intelligenda. A general rule should be generally understood. Generosi filius. A gentleman's son. Generosus. A gentleman. Gens. A Roman tribe composed of families of the same name and descended from a common cestor. Gentes. Plural of Gens. Gentiles. an Members of the same gens. Gentleman. Any man ranking above a yeoman; one having a crest or coat-of-arms. Gentlewoman. A woman of the same rank or status as a gentle man. Gents. People. Genuine. Real or original, as opposed to counterfeit or adulterated. Genus. A kind; a class. George I. 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