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go bail,vb. Archaic. To act as a surety on a bail bond. [Blacks Law 8th]

GNP.abbr.GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT. [Blacks Law 8th]

GNMA.abbr.GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

GMT.abbr.GENETIC-MARKER TEST. [Blacks Law 8th]

GMI.abbr.GUILTY BUT MENTALLY ILL. [Blacks Law 8th]

GM.abbr.Gebrauchsmuster. See UTILITY MODEL. [Blacks Law 8th]

glove silver.Hist. Money given as an incentive or reward to a court officer, esp. money given by a sheriff to an assize official when no prisoners were left by the assize for execution. • The name derives from the practice of giving money to servants, ostensibly to buy gloves with. [Blacks Law 8th]

  Gloucester, Statute of (glos-t<<schwa>>r).Hist. A statute that allowed a successful plaintiff to recover costs in addition to damages. • The statute was enacted in Gloucester.6 Edw. 1, ch. 1 (1278). [Blacks Law 8th]

glossators (glah-say-t<<schwa>>rz). (usu. cap.) A group of Italian jurisconsults who, from the 11th to the 13th centuries, were primarily responsible for the revival of the study of Roman law. • They originally worked by glossing (that is, explaining in the margin) difficult or unclear passages, and gradually their writings blossomed into full-blown commentaries and discussions.…

gloss,n.1. A note inserted between the lines or in the margin of a text to explain a difficult or obscure word in the text <this edition of Shakespeare’s works is bolstered by its many glosses on Elizabethan English>.2. A collection of explanations; a glossary <the hornbook’s copious gloss>.3. (usu. pl.) A pronouncement about meaning; an…