Gentleman - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gentlemanGentleman
Gentleman [fr. gentilhomme, Fr.; gentilhuomo, Ital., i.e., homo gentilis, Lat., a man of ancestry, however high his rank]. All persons above yeomen; whereby noblemen are truly called gentlemen, Smith de Rep. Ang., 1. 1, cc. xx., xxi.The word was not employed as a legal addition until about the time of Henry V. It has no precise legal meaning, but is used to designate a man of independent means and no occupation who is not entitled to 'esquire.'To describe the giver (a clerk in the Audit Office) of a bill of sale (see that title) as a gentleman was held an insufficient description in Allen v. Thompson, (1856) 1 H. & N. 15; and so of a deponent to the fitness of a proposed new trustee in Re Orde, (1883) 24 Ch D 271...
Old gentlemanly
Pertaining to an old gentleman or like one...
Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of
Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of, a chief officer of the king, deriving his name from the Black Rod of office which he carries, and on the top of which reposes a golden lion. During the session of Parliament he attends on the peers, and to his custody all peers impeached for any crime or contempt are first committed, Consult May, Parl. Pr....
Yeoman, or Yoman
Yeoman, or Yoman, a man of a small estate in land; a farmer, a gentleman farmer; also, a 40s. freeholder not advanced to the rank of a gentleman; the highest order among the plebeians, 2 Inst. 668.1. An attendant in a royal or noble house hold 2. A commoner; a free holder (under the rank of gentleman) who holds land yielding 40 shilling per year, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1610....
Gentlemanlike
Of pertaining to resembling or becoming a gentleman befitting a man of good breeding well behaved courteous polite as gentlemanly behavior...
Gentlemanliness
The state of being gentlemanly gentlemanly conduct or manners...
Valec, Valect, or Vadelet
Valec, Valect, or Vadelet, a young gentleman; a gentleman of the chamber; a personal attendant or servant....
baldheaded
Having a bald head lacking hair on all or most of the scalp alsp called bald and bald pated as a bald headed gentleman...
Boudoir
A small room esp if pleasant or elegantly furnished to which a lady may retire to be alone or to receive intimate friends a ladys bedroom a ladys or sometimes a gentlemans private room...
caballero
A knight or cavalier hence a gentleman...
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