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  • GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE
    A marriage celebrated at Gretna, in Dumfries, (bordering on the county of Cumberland,) in Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consent alone, without any other formality. When the marriage act (26 Geo. II. c. 33) rendered the publication of banns, or a license, More...
  • GREVA
    In old records. The sea shore, sand, or beach. 2 Mon. Angl. 625; Cowell.
  • GRIEVED
    Aggrieved. 8 East, 22.
  • GRITH
    In Saxon law. Peace; protection. -Grithbrech. Breach of the king's peace, as opposed to frithbrech, a breach of the nation's peace with other nations.-Grithstole. A seat, chair, or place of peace; a sanctuary; a stone within a church-gate, to which an offender might flee.
  • GROAT
    An English silver coin (value four pence) Issued from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. See Reg. v. Con-nell, 1 Car. A K. 191.
  • GROCER
    In old English law. A merchant or trader who engrossed all vendible merchandise; an engrosser. St. 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See ENGROSSER.
  • GROG-SHOP
    A liquor saloon, barroom, or dram-shop; a place where intoxicating liquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. E. 602.
  • GRONNA
    In old records. A deep hollow or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell.
  • GROOM OF THE STOLE
    In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the king's wardrobe.
  • GROOM PORTER
    Formerly an officer belonging to the royal household. Jacob.
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