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  • GRASS WIDOW
    A slang term for a woman separated from her husband by abandonment or prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. Webster.
  • GRASSON, OR GRASSUM
    A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhold estate.
  • GRATIFICATION
    A gratuity; a recompense or reward for services or benefits, given voluntarily, without solicitation or promise.
  • GRATIS
    Freely; gratuitously; without reward or consideration.
  • GRATIS DICTUM
    A voluntary assertion ; a statement which a party is not legally bound to make, or in which he is not held to precise accuracy. 2 Kent, Comm. 486, Medbury v. Watson, 6 Mete. (Mass.) 260, 39 Am. Dec. 726.
  • GRATUITOUS
    Without valuable or legal consideration. A term applied to deeds of conveyance and to bailments and other contracts. In old English law. Voluntary; without force, fear, or favor. Bract, fols. 11, 17. As to gratuitous "Bailment," "Contract," and "Deposit,'* see those titles.
  • GRAVA
    In old English law. A grove; a small wood; a coppice or thicket Co. Litt 4b. A thick wood of high trees. Blount.
  • GRAVAMEN
    The burden or gist of a charge; the grievance or injury specially complained of. In English ecclesiastieal law. A grievance complained of by the clergy before the bishops in convocation.
  • GRAVATIO
    In old English law. An accusation or impeachment. Leg. Ethel, c 19.
  • GRAVE
    A sepulcher. A place where a dead body is interred.
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