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Gressume

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

GRESSAME, GRESSUM, or grossome (Scotch, grassum).

In old English law

A fine due from a copyholder on the death of his lord. Plowd. fols.

271, 285; 1 Strange, 654.

Cowell derives it from gersum.