A method of Inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practised in Spain, Portugal, and some Spanish-American countries, consisting in strangulation by means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the neck of the sufferer, sometimes with the variation that a sharpened screw is made to advance from the back of the apparatus and pierce the base of the … [Read more...] about GARROTING
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GAVELET
An ancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. II. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 12, p. 208. See Emig v. Cunningham, 62 Md. 460. … [Read more...] about GAVELET
GEMOTE
An assembly. Wittena gemote, during the time of the Saxons in England, signified an assembly of wise men. The parliament. … [Read more...] about GEMOTE
GANANCIAL PROPERTY
In Spanish law. A species of community in property enjoyed by husband and wife, the property being divisible between them equally on a dissolution of the marriage. 1 Burge, Confl. Law, 418. See Cartwright v. Cartwright, 18 Tex. 634; Cutter v. Waddingham, 22 Mo. 254. … [Read more...] about GANANCIAL PROPERTY
GARBLE
In English statutes. To sort or cull out the good from the bad In spices, drugs, etc. Cowell. Garbler of spices. An ancient officer in the city of London, who might enter into any shop, warehouse, etc., to view and search drugs and spices, and garble and make clean the same, or see that it be done. Mozley A Whitley. … [Read more...] about GARBLE