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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…

glos (glos), n. [Latin] Roman law. One’s husband’s sister. [Blacks Law 8th]

Globe election.Labor law. The procedure by which a group of employees is given the opportunity to decide whether to be represented as a distinct group or to be represented as a part of a larger, existing unit. Globe Machine & Stamping Co., 3 NLRB 294 (1937). — Also termed self-determination election. [Blacks Law 8th]

global fund.See MUTUAL FUND. [Blacks Law 8th]

glebe (gleeb). [fr. Latin gleba “clod of earth”] 1.Roman law. The soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate. • Servi addicti glebae (“slaves bound to the land”) were serfs attached to and passing with the estate. 2.Eccles. law. Land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice. “Diocesan glebe…

glebae ascriptitii.See ADSCRIPTI GLEBAE. [Blacks Law 8th]