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GO PUBLIC

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To file to become a public held and traded company listed on a major stock exchange. … [Read more...]

GOLD

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A metal used in making money, or coin. It is pure when the metal is unmixed with any other. Standard gold, is gold mixed with some other metal, called alloy. Vide Money. … [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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