(A) The person or party who receives a court order and is to garnish the wages of a debtor, e.g. a bank or employer. (B) practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and he has had notice of such attachment; he is so called because he has had warning or notice of the attachment. … [Read more...]

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure. There are also private gaugers in large seaport towns, who are licensed by government to perform the same duties. Rapal. & L. … [Read more...]

Also transliterated as Gemarah and the Hebrew word meaning the completion. This refers to the Rabbinical legal discussions and disputes concerning the fundamental commentaries of Jewish law stated in the Mishnah and which was codified and completed circa 500 CE. The Mishnah and the Gemarah together comprise the Talmud, the Jewish legal commentary. … [Read more...]

A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which … [Read more...]

In old English law. A bundle or sheaf. Blada in garbis, corn or grain in sheaves. Reg. Orig. 96; Bract, fol. 209. Garba sagittaram. A sheaf of arrows, containing twenty-four. Otherwise called "sehaffa sagittarum" Skene. … [Read more...]