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  • GRAVEYARD
    A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes defined in statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as "six or more") are buried. See Stockton v. Weber, 98 Cal. 433, 83 Pac 332. -Graveyard insurance. A term applied to insurances fraudulently obtained (as. by More...
  • GRAVIS
    Grievous; great Ad grave damnum, to the grievous damage 11 Coke, 40.
  • GRAVIUS
    A graf; a chief magistrate or officer. A term derived from the more ancient "graflo" and used in combination with various other words, as an official title in Germany; as Margravius, Rheingravius, Landgravius, etc. Spelman. Gravins est divinam qnam temperalem lsedere majestatem. It is more serious to hurt divine than More...
  • GRAY'S INN
    An inn of court. See INNS OF COURT.
  • GREAT
    As used in various compound legal terms, this word generally means extraordinary, that is, exceeding the common or ordinary measure or standard, in respect to physical size, or importance, dignity, etc. See Gulf, etc., R. Co. v. Smith, 87 Tex. 348, 28 S. W. 520. -Great eattle. A11 manner of More...
  • GREAT LAW, THE
    or "The Body of Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania and Territories thereunto belonging, Past at an Assembly held at Chester, alias Upland, the 7th day of the tenth month, called 'December' 1682." This was the first code of laws established in Pennsylvania, and is justly celebrated for the provision More...
  • GREE
    Satisfaction for an offense committed or injury done. Cowell.
  • GREEK KALENDS
    A colloquial expression to signify a time indefinitely remote, there being no such division of time known to the Greeks.
  • GREEN CLOTH
    In English law. A board or court of justice held in the counting-house of the king's (or queen's) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferior officers. It takes its name from the green cloth spread over the board at which it is held. Wharton; Cowell.
  • GREEN SILVER
    A feudal custom in the manor of Writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a half-penny yearly to the lord, by the name of "green silver" or "rent" CowelL
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