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GIVE AND BEQUEATH

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Common phrase used in wills meaning that the testator leaves property to a person. … [Read more...]

GLEBARIAE

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Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell. … [Read more...]

GIVE NOTICE

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To inform someone of something, such as a legal action being filed, that a legal action will be filed, an intention not to renew a month to month lease, to notify in advance that an employee will leave a job, etc. … [Read more...]

GLEBE

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In ecclesiastieal law. The land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman law. A clod; turf; soil. Hence, the soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate. Servi addicti glebes were serfs attached to and passing with the estate. Cod. 11, 47, 7, 21; Nov. 54, 1. … [Read more...]

GIBBET LAW

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Lynch law; in particular a custom anciently prevailing in the parish of Halifax. England, by which the free burghers held a summary trial of any one accused of petit larceny, and if they found him guilty, ordered him to be decapitated. … [Read more...]

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