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GAMBLING

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Betting, wagering, risk taking. … [Read more...]

GAAS

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Generally Accepted Audit Standards … [Read more...]

GAINERY

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Tillage, or the profit arising from it, or from the beasts employed therein. … [Read more...]

GAME

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1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See Coolldge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, and bustards. Brown. See 1 A 2 Wm. IV. c. 32. Game-keeper. One who has the care of keeping and preserving the game on an estate, being … [Read more...]

GABEL

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A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. Cunn. Dict. h. t. But this seems to be an error for gabelle signified in that country, previously to its revolution, a duty upon salt. Merl. Rep. h. t. Lord Coke says, that gabel or gavel, gablum, gabellum, gabelletum, galbelletum, and gavillettum signify a rent, … [Read more...]

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