Grammar School
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In England, this term designates a school in which such instruction is given as will prepare the student to enter a college or university, and in this sense the phrase was used in the Massachusetts colonial act of 1647, requiring every town containing a hundred householders to set up a “grammar school.”
See 103 Mass. 97.
But in modern American usage the term denotes a school, intermediate bebween the primary schoo] and the high school, in which English grammar and other studies of cm that grade are taught. Grammatica falsa non vitiat chartam.
9 Coke, 48.
False grammar does not vitiate a deed.