Black's Law Dictionary

The child of one's child.

A collection of customs, laws, and forms of procedure in use in early times in France. See Coutumier.

In English practice. Certain days in the terms, which are solemnly kept in the inns of ceurt and chancery, viz., Candlemas day in Hilary term, Ascension day in Easter, St. John the

The father of either of one's parents.

A jury of inquiry who are summoned and returned by the sheriff to each session of the criminal courts, and whose duty is to receive complaints and accusations in criminal cases, he

In criminal law. In England, simple larceny, was originnily divided into two sorts, —grand larceny, where the value of the goods stolen was abave twelve pence, and petit larceny, w

The mother of either of one's parents.

A farm furnished with barns, granaries, stables, and all conveniences for husbandry. Co. Litt 5o.

A keeper of a grange or farm.

A grange, Co.. Litt. 5o.

A generic term applicable to all transfers of real property. 3 Washb. Real Prop. 181, 353. A transfer by deed of that which caimot be passed by livery. Williams, Real Prop. 147, 14

Operative words in a charter party, implying the placing of the vessel at the disposition of the charterer for the purposes of the intended voyage, and generally transferring the p

Operative words in conveyances of real estate. See Muller v. Boggs, 25 Cal. 187; Hawk v. McCullough, 21 111. 221; Ake v. Mason, 107 Pa. 20.

The person to whom a grant is made.

A method of transferring personal property, distinguished from a gift by being always founded on some consideration or equivalent. 2 Bl. Comm. 440, 441. Its proper legal designatio

The person by whom a grant is made.

The common grant with uses superadd-ed, which has become the favorite mode of transferring realty in England. Wharton.

In old English law. Noblemen or grandees. Jacob.

In old records. The grazing or turning up the earth with a plow. The name of a customary service for inferior tenants to bring their plows, and do one day's work for their lords. C

A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhold estate.

Rogation week, so called anciently in the inns of court and chancery.

A slang term for a woman separated from her husband by abandonment or prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. Webster.

A gratuity; a recompense or reward for services or benefits, given voluntarily, without solicitation or promise.

Freely; gratuitously; without reward or consideration.

A voluntary assertion ; a statement which a party is not legally bound to make or in which he is not held to precise accuracy. 2 Kent, Comm. 486; Medbury v. Watson, 6 Mete. (Mass.)

Without valuable or le-gui consideration. A term applied to deeds of conveyance and to bailments and other contracts. In old English law. Voluntary; without force, fear, or favor.

Another name for a depositum or naked bailment, which is made only for the benefit of the bailor and is not a source of profit to the bailee. Foster . Essex Bank, 17 Mass. 499, 9 A

In old English law. A grove; a small wood; a coppice or thicketCo. Litt. 4b. A thick wood of high trees. Blount.

The burden or gist of a charge; the grievance or injury specially complained of. In English ecclesiastical law. A grievance complained of by the clergy before the bishops in convoc

In old English law. An accusation or impeachment. Leg. Ethel, c. 19.

A sepulcher. A place where a dead body ls interred.

A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes defined in statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as "six or more") are buried. See Stockton v. Webe

A term applied to insurances fraudulently obtained (as, by false personation or other means) on the lives of infants, very aged persons, or those in the last stages of disease. Als

Grievous; great. Ad grave damnum, to the grievous damage. 11 Coke, 40.

A graf; a chief magistrate or officer. A term derived from the more ancient "grafio," and used in combination with various other words, as an official title in Germany; as Margravi

It is more serious to hurt divine than temporal majesty. 11 Coke, 29.

An inn of court. See Inns of Court.

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 impo

All manner of beasts except sheep and yearlings. 2 Rolle, 173.

Magna Charta, (q. v.) As to great "Care," "Ponds," "Seal," "Tithes," see those titles.

Such a measure of care, prudence, and assiduity as persons of unusual prudence and discretion exercise in regard to any and all of their own affairs, or such as persons of ordinary

In feudal law, this was the designation of a fee held directly from the crown.

In Maine and Massachusetts, natural ponds having a superficial area of more than ten acres, and not appropriated by the proprietors to their private use prior to a certain date. Ba

In English law. A seal by virtue of which a great part of the royal authority is exercised. The office of the lord chancellor, or lord keeper, is created by the delivery of the gre

A court which was abolished by St. 1 Wm. IV. c. 70. The proceedings now issue out of the courts at Westminster, and two of the judges of the superior couris hold the circuits in Wa

In English ecclesiastical law. Tithes of com, pease and beans, hay and wood. 2 Chit. Bl. Comm. 24, note; 3 Steph. Comm. 127.

Satisfaction for an offense committed or injury done. Cowell.

A colloquial expression to signify a time indefinitely remote, there being no such division of time known to the Greeks.

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

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 na

In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley.

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" o

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 wav.

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, o

The code or collection of constitutions made by the Roman jurist Gregorius. See CoDEX Gregorianus.

The time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates; i. e., from the year 1582.

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.

Lat. The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. In finglish law, an estate which is in abeyance is said to be in gremo legis; that is, in the protection or

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 G

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."

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, with

In old records. The sea shore, sand or beach. 2 Mon. Angl. 625; Cowell.

Aggrieved. 3 East, 22.

In Saxon law. Peace; protection. —Grithhreoh. Breach of the king's peace, as opposed to frithbrech, a breach of the nation's peace with other nations. —Grithstole. A seat, chair, o

Breach of the king's peace, as opposed to frithbrech, a breach of the nation's peace with other nations.

A seat, chair, or place of peace; a sanctuary; a stone within a church-gate, to which an offender might flee.

An English silver coin (value four pence) issued from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. See Reg. v. Connell, 1 Can. & K. 191.

In old English law. A merchant or trader who engrossed all vendible merchandise; an engrosser. St 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See Engrosser.

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.

In old records. A deep hollow or pit; a bog or miry place, Cowell.

In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the king's wardrobe.

Formerly an officer belonging to the royal household. Jacob.

Great; culpable. General. Absolute or entire. A thing in gross exists in its own right, and not as an appendage to another thing. As to gross"Adventure," "Average," "Earnings," "Fa

In maritime law. A loan on bottomry. So named because the lender, in case of a loss, or expense incurred for the common safety, must contribute to the gross or general average.

In maritime law. A contribution made by the owners of a ship, its cargo, and the freight, towards the loss sustained by the voluntary and necessary sacrifice of property for the co

Where a person against whom a demand is made by another, in his turn makes a demand against that other, these mutual demands are called "cross-demands " A set-off is a familiar exa

The gross earnings of a business or company are the total receipts before deducting expenditures. Net earnings are the excess of the gross earnings over the expenditures defrayed i

Fr. In French marine law. The contract of bottomry. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit 5.

Timber. Cowell.

In Fr. Largely, greatly. Grossement enseint, big with child. Plowd. 76.

In the law of bailment. The want of slight diligence. The want of that care which every man of common sense, how inattentive soever, takes of his own property. The omission of that

In old English law. A fine or sum of money paid for a lease. Plowd. 270, 271. Supposed to be a corruption of gersuma, (q. v.) See Gressume.

The whole weight of goods and merchandise, including the dust and dross, and also the chest or bag, etc., upon which tare and tret are allowed.

Lat. Being sick or indisposed. A term used in some of the older reports. "Holt œgroto." 11 Mod. 179.

1. Soil; earth; a portion of the earth's surface appropriated to private use and under cultivation or susceptible of cultivation. Though this term is sometimes used in conveyances

A custom or tribute paid for the standing of shipping in port. Jacob.

In Scotch law. An annual rent of two kinds: First, the feu duties payable to the lords of erection and their successors ; second, the rents reserved for building lots in a city, wh

The grantor of an estate on which a ground-rent is reserved.-

The basis of a suit; the foundation or fundamental state of facts on which an action rests; the real object of the plaintiff in bringing his suit. See Nash v. Adams, 24 Co.nn. 39;

See Ground.

By the English common-law procedure act, 1852, c. 121, "it shall not be necessary to issue any writ directed to the sheriff of the county in which the venue is laid, but writs of e

A crop must be considered and treated as a growing crop from the time the seed is deposited in the ground, as at that time the seed loses the qualities of a chattel, and becomes a

A rate paid in some places for the tithe of every fat beast, ox or other unfruitful cattle. Clayt. 92

The principal officers of a forest.

In mining law. A contract between two parties by which one undertakes to furnish the necessary provisions, tools, and other supplies, and the other to prospect for and locate miner

In old European law. A pledge. Spelman; Calvin. A custom. Spelman. Spelled also "wadia."

He to whom a guaranty ls made. This word ls also used, as a noun, to denote the contract of guaranty or the obligation of a guarantor, and, as a verb, to denote the action of assum

See Stock.

He who makes a guaranty.

n. A promise to answer for the payment of some debt or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who, in the first instance, ls liable to such payment