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  • GRACE , DAYS OF
    Time of indulgence granted to an acceptor or maker for the payment of his bill of exchange or note. It was originally a gratuitous favor, (hence the name,) but custom has rendered it a legal right.
  • GRADATIM
    In old English law. By degrees or steps; step by step; from one degree to another. Bract fol. 64.
  • GRADUS
    In the civil and old English law. A measure of space. A degree of relationship. A step or degree generally; e. g., gradus honorum, degrees of honor. Vicat A pulpit; a year; a generation. Du Cange. A port; any place where a vessel can be brought to land. Du Cange.
  • GRADUS PARENTELAE
    A pedigree; a table of relationship.
  • 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...
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