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GRACE , DAYS OF

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Time of indulgence granted to an acceptor or maker for the payment of his bill of exchange or note. It was originally a gratuitous favor, (hence the name,) but custom has rendered it a legal right. … [Read more...]

GO WITHOUT DAY

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These words have a technical sense. When a party is dismissed the court, he is said to go without day; that is, there is no day appointed for him to appear again. … [Read more...]

GOLDA

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A mine. Blount. A sink or passage for water. Cowell. … [Read more...]

GOAT, GOTE

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In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callls describes goats as "usual engines erected and built with portcullises and doors of timber and stone or brick. Invented first in Lower Germany." Cailis, Sewers. (9L) 112, 113.. Cowell defines "gote," a ditch, sewer, or gutter. … [Read more...]

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