Glossary
Terms starting with G
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- GUARANTEED REPLACEMENT COST COVERAGE
- Homeowners policy that pays the full cost of replacing or repairing a damaged or destroyed home, even if it is above the policy limit. (See Extended replacement cost coverage)
- Guaranteed Reservation Information
- A guarantee usually made by giving a credit card number, commonly for hotels or rental cars, in exchange for the guarantee the item will be reserved. The hotel or rental car agency can then charge the credit card a certain agreed upon fee, as liquidated…
- Guarantor Information
- The guarantor is the one who gives or makes a guarantee to another.
- GUARANTY FUND
- The mechanism by which solvent insurers ensure that some of the policyholder and third party claims against insurance companies that fail are paid. Such funds are required in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, but the type and amount of…
- Guaranty Information
- A guaranty is simply a promise of some quality or performance.
- Guardian ad litem Information
- Ad litem means "for the purpose of the litigation." A guardian ad litem is a person, almost always an attorney, appointed by the court, to serve as an officer of the court, and to prosecute and defend an infant or incompetent person who is involved is civil…
- Guardian Information
- The guardian is the person appointed by the court to take charge and manage, or oversee the welfare, of another person.
- Guardianship Hearing information
- The court procedure wherein a person is appointed by the court to take charge and manage, or oversee the welfare, of another person, known as the ward.
- guide RNA (gRNA)
- RNA that guides the insertion of uridines (RNA editing) into mRNAs in trypanosomes. Found in transcripts from minicircles and maxicircles of DNA in kinetoplasts.
- Guilty Information
- Simply put, this is responsibility for the offense. Guilty is having committed a crime or tort.
- Guilty Plea Information
- A Guilty Plea is the formal admission, made in open court by the defendant, that he is guilty to the offense charged. So long as the admission is voluntary and intelligent, the plea will be accepted. Guilty Pleas are very common in plea bargaining, where the…
- Guinea fowl
- Originally a game bird, but now domesticated and available all year round, the guinea fowl has a flavour somewhere between chicken and pheasant. You can substitute guinea fowl for just about any chicken recipe. A young bird has tasty flesh, although it's…
- Gumbo
- A thick, gelatinous, soupy stew from Louisiana in the southern US, thickened with okra. Made with chicken, fish, pork, turkey or seafood, it's typically spicy in flavour, as is much Cajun cooking. It's also a popular dish in many other American southern…
- GUN LIABILITY
- A new legal concept that holds gun manufacturers liable for the cost of injuries caused by guns. Several cities have filed lawsuits based on this concept.
- gynandromorph
- An individual that is a mosaic of male and female structures. The underlying cause is frequently sex chromosome mosaicism, such that some cells are chromosomal females while others are chromosomal males. Mosaic individuals having simultaneous aspects of both…