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gestion|ˈdʒɛstɪən, ˈdʒɛstʃən| [ad. L. gestiōn-em, n. of action f. gerĕre to carry on. Cf. F. gestion.] 1. A carrying on or out; conduct, management. † Also, working order.
1599Chapman Hum. Dayes Mirth Plays 1873 I. 78 Is she a woman that objects this sight, able to worke the chaos of the world into gestion? 1656Blount Glossogr., Gestion, a doing of a thing. 1801T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) III. 486 That participation in the gestion of affairs which his office made incumbent on him. 1818H. T. Colebrooke Obligations & Contracts I. 131 Of this [quasi-contract] there are five chief sorts. 1st. Gestion of another's affairs without a commission. 1851H. D. Wolff Pict. Span. Life 57 Myrmidons of evil, stand ready to furnish more instruments for the gestion of this torment. 1876Browning Pacchiarotto x, Like landlord in house he had sublet Resuming of guardianship gestion. 2. Sc. Law. The conduct of one who acts as an heir: = L. gestio pro hærede.
1674Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decis. Crt. Session (1826) III. 39 That disponing or selling of lands is a gestio pro hærede..but it is doubted by some, if the renouncing a reversion, legal or conventional, for a sum of money, be a gestion or not. |