TO GARNSIH. To warn; to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir. Obsolete.GARNISHEE, practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, bel...
GAMING HOUSES, crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of pemitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye ...
GABEL. A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. Cunn. Dict. h. t. But this se...
FURLINGUS. A furlong, or a furrow oneeighth part of a mile long. Co. Litt. 5. b.FURLONG. A measure of length, being forty poles, or one-eighth of a mi...
FUNERAL EXPENSES. Money expended in procuring the interment of a corpse. 2. The person who orders the funeral is responsible personally for the expens...
FULL AGE. A. person is said to have full age at twenty-one years, whether the person be a man or woman. See Age.FULL COURT. When all the judges are pr...
FRUIT, property. The produce of tree or plant containing the seed or used for food. Fruit is considered real estate, before it is separated from the p...
FREIGHTER, contracts. He to whom a ship or vessel has been hired. 3 Kent, Com. 173; 3 Pardess. n. 704. 2. The freighter is entitled to the enjoyment o...
FREIGHT, mar. law, contracts. The sum agreed on for the hire of a ship, entirely or in part, for the carriage of goods from one port to another; l3 Ea...
FREE WARREN, Eng. law. A franchise erected for the preservation and custody of beasts and fowls of warren. 2 Bl. Com. 39; Co. Litt. 233.FREEDMEN. The ...