Gressume

Gressum.

In English law

A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant on the death of the lord.

1 Stra. 664. 1 Crahb's Real Prop. 616, § 778.

Called also grassum, and grossome, (q. V.).

GREVA.

L. Lat In old records. The sea shore, sand or beach.

2 Mon. Angl. 626.

Cowell. -GREVE, Gereve. Sax. [from Sax. ^erefa, q. v.] The contracted form of gerefa or grefa, used in the time of Edward the Confessor, to denote a chief magistrate or lord, {prcefectus, prmpositus.) LL. Bdw. Conf. c.

35.

Spelman, voc.

Grafio.

Answering to the Germ, grave, from grafio, (q. V.) Afterwards still further shortened by the Anglo-Normans into reve, or reeve, which continues to be used in English law. Spelman, ub. sup.

Cowell. Blount.

There were various compounds of this word, as shire-greve, or shire-reve, the chief officer of the shire or county, now sheriff; port-greve, the chief magistrate of a port; led-greve, of a lathe; hundred-greve, of & hundred; tungreve, of a town or vill, and the like. Spelman, ub. sup. See Beve, Reeve.