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Green Cloth

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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 interior officors. It takes its name from the green cloth spread over the board at which it is held. Wharton; Cowell.