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Definition :

Gain, to make profitable. See Statute of the Exchequer or 51 hen. 3, c. 4, by which no man 'shall be distrained by his beasts that gain his land,' nor by his sheep, so long as other distress can be found.

An increase in amount, degree or value; excess of receipts over expenditure or of sale price over cost, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 686.