A rule which allows a judge to interpret words as intended rather than may be literally written so as to avoid an absurd or wrongful result. … [Read more...]
GOD-BOTE
An ecclesiastical or church fine paid for crimes and offenses committed against God. Cowell. … [Read more...]
GOLDEN RULE ARGUMENT
An argument used by plaintiff's attorneys in personal injury cases, who ask jurors to consider damages for an injured client as if the juror himself or herself was so injured, e.g. disfigured just like the plaintiff. … [Read more...]
GOD-GILD
That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob. … [Read more...]
GOLDSMITHS' NOTES
Bankers' cash notes (i.e., promissory notes given by a banker to his customers as acknowledgments of the receipt of money) were originally called in London "goldsmiths' notes," from the circumstance that all the banking business in England was originally transacted by goldsmiths. Wharton. … [Read more...]