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  • GRAFFARIUS
    In old English law. A graffer, notary, or scrivener. St 5 Hen. VIIL c. 1.
  • GRAFFER
    A notary or scrivener. See St 5 Hen. VIIL c. 1. The word is a corruption of the French "prefler," (q. v.)
  • GRAFFIUM
    A writing-book, register, or cartulary of deeds and evidences. Cowell.
  • GRAFIO
    A baron, inferior to a count A fiscal judge. An advocate. Spelman; Cowell.
  • GRAFT
    A term used in equity to denote the confirmation, by relation back, of the right of a mortgagee in premises to which, at the making of the mortgage, the mortgagor had only an Imperfect title, but to which the latter has since acquired a good title.
  • GRAIN
    In Troy weight, the twenty-fourth part of a pennyweight Any kind of corn sown in the ground. -Grain rent. A payment for the use of land in grain or other crops; the return to the landlord paid by croppers or persons working the land on shares. Railroad Co. v. Bates, More...
  • GRAINAGE
    An ancient duty in London under which the twentieth part of salt imported by aliens was taken.
  • GRAMMAR SCHOOL
    In England, this term designates a school in which such instruction is given as will prepare the student to enter a college or university, and in this sense the phrase was used in the Massachusetts colonial act of 1647, requiring every town containing a hundred householders to set up a More...
  • GRAMMATOPHYLACIUM
    (Gneco-Lat.) In the civil law. A place for keeping writings or records. Dig. 48, 19, 9, 6,
  • GRAMME
    The unit of weight in the metric system. The gramme is the weight of a cubic centimeter of distilled water at the temperature of 43 C It is equal to 15.4341 grains troy, or 5.6481 drachms avoirdupois.
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