| Terms- Garnishment
- The seizing of a person's property, credit or salary, on the basis of a law which allows it, and for the purposes of paying off a debt.
Expanded Legal Definition of Garnishment
- Gavel
- A wooden mallet used by a judge to bring proceedings to a start or to an end or to command attention in his or her court.
Expanded Legal Definition of Gavel
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- Multilateral international treaty first created in 1947 and frequently amended (most recently in 1994) to which 125 countries subscribe.
Expanded Legal Definition of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- General Counsel
- The senior lawyer of a corporation.
Expanded Legal Definition of General Counsel
- Gift Over
- To provide for the gift of property to a second recipient if a certain event occurs, such as the death of the first recipient.
Expanded Legal Definition of Gift Over
- Goodwill
- An intangible business asset which includes a cultivated reputation and consequential attraction and confidence of repeat customers and connections.
Expanded Legal Definition of Goodwill
- Grand Jury
- An American criminal justice procedure whereby, in each court district, a group of 16-23 citizens hold an inquiry on criminal complaints brought by the prosecutor and decide if a trial is warranted, in which case an indictment is issued.
Expanded Legal Definition of Grand Jury
- Gross Negligence
- An action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Gross Negligence
- Guarantor
- A person who pledges payment or performance of a contract of another, but separately, as part of an independently contract with the obligee of the original contract.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guarantor
- Guardian
- An individual who, by legal appointment or by the effect of a written law, is given custody of both the property and the person of one who is unable to manage their own affairs, such as a child or mentally-disabled person.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guardian
- Guardian Ad Litem
- A guardian appointed to direct litigation on behalf and in the interests of a person otherwise incapable of managing their affairs.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guardian Ad Litem
- Genocide
- Systematic killing of persons because of their ethnicity.
Expanded Legal Definition of Genocide
- Guarantee or Guaranty
- A back-up debtor who steps in if the primary debtor defaults.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guarantee or Guaranty
- Guillotine
- A machine designed to inflict capital punishment by dropping a blade onto the neck, thus quickly severing of the head from the body.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guillotine
- Gift
- A transfer of property with nothing given in return.
Expanded Legal Definition of Gift
- Gerrymander
- The intentional setting of electoral boundaries taking into account traditional voting patterns, so as to attempt to influence the taking of an elected office.
Expanded Legal Definition of Gerrymander
- Golden Rule
- A rule of statutory or legal document interpretation which allows a shift from the ordinary sense of as word(s) if the overall content of the document demands it.
Expanded Legal Definition of Golden Rule
- Government
- Organization of law-making and law enforcement; the form and institutions by which law and order are developed and maintained in a society.
Expanded Legal Definition of Government
- Grossly Unfair
- Manifestly unfair; clearly more than merely unfair; disproportionately unfair.
Expanded Legal Definition of Grossly Unfair
- General Deterrence
- A sentencing objective which aims to discourage persons other than the offender, from committing a similar offence.
Expanded Legal Definition of General Deterrence
- General Average
- A principle of maritime law where in the event of emergency, if cargo is jettisoned or expenses incurred, the loss is shared proportionately by all parties with a financial interest in the voyage.
Expanded Legal Definition of General Average
- General Partner
- The individual in a limited liability partnership business structure, who oversees the management of the business, and who is personally exposed to the debts of the business.
Expanded Legal Definition of General Partner
- God
- Supreme being.
Expanded Legal Definition of God
- Goods
- A chattel which is, generally, subject to sale.
Expanded Legal Definition of Goods
- Grievance
- A claim by a union or a unionized employee that a collective bargaining agreement has been breached.
Expanded Legal Definition of Grievance
- Grievance Arbitration
- The resolution of a dispute as to an alleged violation of a term of a collective bargaining agreement, by arbitration.
Expanded Legal Definition of Grievance Arbitration
- Guardianship
- The office or duty of one who legally has the care and management of the person, or the estate, or both, of a child.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guardianship
- Gravamen
- The material part or essence of a charge, grievance or complaint.
Expanded Legal Definition of Gravamen
- Grand-Father Clause
- A provisions in law or a contract which exempts persons already engaging in the activity which the law or contract prohibits, from adverse results from the law or contract.
Expanded Legal Definition of Grand-Father Clause
- Ghostwriting
- When a lawyer is hired to draft an official court document on behalf of a self-represented litigant.
Expanded Legal Definition of Ghostwriting
- Ghost Surgery
- When surgery is performed by an unauthorized substitute surgeon.
Expanded Legal Definition of Ghost Surgery
- Guardian of the Estate
- A person who is appointed to manage the property and financial affairs of an incapable individual.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guardian of the Estate
- Guardian of the Person
- A person appointed to manage the health and well-being of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Guardian of the Person
- Global Deterioration Scale
- A psychiatric tool charting stages of dementia.
Expanded Legal Definition of Global Deterioration Scale
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