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  • 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
  • GREEN WAX
    In English law. The name of the estreats in the exchequer, delivered to the sheriff under the seal of that court which was impressed upon green wax.
  • GREENBACK
    The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United States treasury issues. It is not applied to any other species of paper currency; and, when employed in testimony by way of description. Is as certain as the phrase "treasury notes." Hickey v. State, 23 Ind. 23. And see U. More...
  • GREENHEW
    In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley.
  • GREFFIERS
    In French law. Registrars, or clerks of the courts. They are officials attached to the courts to assist the judges in their duties. They keep the minutes, write out the judgments, orders, and other decisions given by the tribunals, and deliver copies thereof to applicants.
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