The gain or profit of tilled or planted land, raised by cultivating it; and thedraught, plow, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser kind ofsoke […]
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GAINERY
Tillage, or the profit arising from it, or from the beasts employed therein.
GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT
Condition of the employee receiving consistent work and payment from the employer. What a worker or college graduate seeks to provide consistent, continual income for self and family. Used in […]
GAINFUL OCCUPATION
This term means that you work for living and earn wages.
GAINOR
In old English law . A soke- man; one who occupied or cultivated arablelaud. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.
GAINS
Value increase posted on the company’s balance sheet , reflected in the company’s financials. Caused by the profitable sale of an asset, a valued instrument .
GAINS SHARING
Pay-incentive plan. Motivational tool for employees as a group. Seeks improved productivity in their workgroup. Improvement comes from a more efficient use of resources (energy, labor, and materials). The group […]
GAJUM
A thick wood. Spelman.
GALE
The payment of a rent, tax, duty, or annuity.A gale is the right to open and work a mine within the Hundred of St. Brlavel’s, or astone quarry within the […]
GALEA
In old records. A piratical vessel; a galley.
GALENES
In old Scotch law . Amends or compensation for slaughter. Bell.
GALLI-HALFPENCE
A kind of coin which, with suskius and doitkins, was forbidden by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1.
GALLIVOLATIUM
A cock-shoot, or cock-glade.
GALLON
A liquid measure, containing 231 cubic inches, or four quarts. The imperialgallon contains about 277, and the ale gallon 2S2, cubic inches. Hollender v. Ma- gone(C. C.) 38 Fed. 914; […]
GALLOWS
A scaffold; a beam laid over either one or two posts, from which malefactors are hanged.
GALVANIZED STEEL
Any steel with a thin outer corrosion resistance layer of zinc. Corrosion resistance is longer as the zinc coating is thicker. period Thickness of the zinc layer determines . Can […]
GALVANIZING
The coating of steel with a zinc film. Provides long term corrosion protection and abrasion resistance, up to generally 10 to 30 years. The tried and true hot-metal bath and […]
GAMACTA
In old European law. A stroke or blow. Spelman.
GAMALIS
A child born in lawful wedlock ; also one born to betrothed but unmarried parents. Spelman.
GAMBLE
To game or play at a game for money. Buckley v. O’NIel, 113 Mass. 193,18 Am. Rep. 406. The word “gamble” is perhaps the most apt and substantial to conveythe […]
GAMBLING
Betting; wagering. Results in either a gain or total loss of wager, the money or asset put up. Neither risk-taking nor investing, nor like insurance. Risk taking or speculation takes […]
GAMBLING INCOME
Money gained by wagering. Legal gambling operations such as slot machines, horse races or lottery allows a person to submit a tax filing declaration of gambling income .
GAMBLING LOSS
Money lost by wagering. Legal gambling operations such as slot machines, horse races or lottery allows a person to submit a tax filing declaration of gambling losses, but these cannot […]
GAME
1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon,Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (inEngland) hares, […]
GAME LAWS
These are the laws that have been passed in order to preserve wildlife.