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...]
Golden Gate U. Envtl. L.J.
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GOD
From the Saxon god, good. The source of all good; the supreme being. 1. Every man is presumed to believe in God, and he who opposes a witness on the ground of his unbelief is bound to prove it. 3 Bouv. Inst. u. 3180. 2. Blasphemy against the Almighty, by denying his being or providence, was an offence punishable at common law by fine and imprisonment, or other infamous corporal … [Read more...]
Golden Gate U. L. Rev.
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GOD AND MY COUNTRY
The answer made by a prisoner, when arraigned, in answer to the question, "How will you be tried?" In the ancient practice he had the choice (as appears by the question) whether to submit to the trial by ordeal (by God) or to be tried by a Jury, (by the country;) and U is probable that the original form of the answer was, "By God or my country," whereby the prisoner averred his … [Read more...]