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GUILDHALL

GYVES

GUILDHALL. The hall or place of meet ing of a guild, or gild. The place of meeting of a municipal cor poration. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. The mercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed to have given rise to the pres ent municipal corporations of England, whose place of meeting is still called the "Guild hall." —Guildhall sittings. The sittings held in the Guildhall of the city of London for city of London causes. GUILLOTINE. An instrument for decap itation, used, in France for the infliction of the death penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weight ed knife-blade moving perpendicularly be tween grooved posts, which is made to fall from a considerable height upon the neck of the sufferer, immovably fixed in position to receive the impact. GUILT. In criminal law. That quality which imparts criminality to a motive or act, and renders the person amenable to punish ment by the law. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence. See Ruth. Inst.

by planets and jewels called it "Mars," and "ruby." Wharton. GURGES. Lat. Properly a whirlpool, but in old English law and 'conveyancing, a deep pit filled with water, distinguished from "stagnum," which was a shallow pool or pond. Co. Litt. 5; Johnson v. Rayner, 6 Gray (Mass.) 107. GURGITES. Wears. Jacob. GUTI. Jutes; one of the three nations who migrated from Germany to Britain at an early period. According to Spelman, they established themselves chiefly in Kent and the Isle of Wight. GUTTER. The diminutive of a sewer, Callis, Sew. {80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or conduit designed to allow the passage of water from one point to another In a certain direction, whether for purposes of drainage, irrigation, or otherwise. War ren v. Henly, 31 Iowa, 31; Willis v. State, Maid's fee. A British word signifying a customary fine payable to lords of some manors on marriage of the tenant's daughters, or otherwise on their committing incontinence. Cowell. Jacob. 6WAYP. Waif, or waived; that which has been stolen and afterwards dropped in the highway for fear of a discovery. Cowell. GYLPUT. The name of a court which was held every three weeks in the liberty or hundred of Pathbew in Warwick. Jacob. GYLTWITE. Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell. GYNARCY, or GYN^COCRACY. Gov ernment by a woman; a state in which women are legally capable of the supreme command; e. g., in Great Britain and Spain. GYROVAGI. Wandering monks. GYVES. Fetters or shackles for the legs. 27 Neb. 98, 42 N. W. 920. GWABR MERCHED. GWALSTOW. A place of execution.