Grafio

Graphio, Gravio, Gravius, Graphius. L. Lat. In early European law. A fiscal judge: and derivatively, a count, (comes;) a count's deputy, or viscount, {vice comes, reeve, or sheriff;) a judge; a chief or presiding magistrate. Answering to the Anglo-Saxon gerefa, which Spelman supposes to be from the same root gerefan, or reafen, to take or exact; the proper meaning of the word, in his opinion, being an exactor, or collector of taxes, or public dues. Spelman in voce. The word grafio is confined to the laws of the early continental nations, and is generally used to denote a fiscal judge or count. L, Salic, titt.

33, 55.

L. Ripuar. titt.

34, 84.

See Judex fiscalis, Comes. It occurs however in a charter of Kenulph, king of the Mercians, quoted in the Afonastican Anglicanum, tom.

1, p. 100. Cowell.

See Gravius, Greve.