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  • GREGORIAN CODE
    The code or collection of constitutions made by the Roman jurist Gregorius. See CODEX GREGORIANUS.
  • GREGORIAN EPOCH
    The time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates; i. e., from the year 1582.
  • GREMIO
    In Spanish law. A guild; an association of workmen, artificers, or merchants following the same trade or business; designed to protect and further the Interests of their craft.
  • GREMIUM
    Lat. The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. In English law, an estate which is in abeyance is said to be in gremio legis; that is, In the protection or keeping of the law.
  • GRENVILLE ACT
    The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over parliamentary election petitions was transferred from the whole house of commons to select committees Repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 22. II.
  • GRESSUME
    In English law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant on the death of' the lord. 1 Strange, 654; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 615, | 778. Called also "grassum," and "grossome."
  • 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.
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