Gradus — Law Dictionary

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Grade; status; relationship.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil and old English law. A measure of space. A degree of relationship. A step or degree generally; e. g., gradus honorum, degrees of honor. Vicat. A pulpit; a year; a generation. Du Cange. A port; any place where a vessel can be brought to land. Du Cange.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In old English law. Degree; rank; grada In civil and canon law. A degree in relationship.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In the civil and old English law. A measure of space. A degree of relationship. A step or degree generally; 4. g., gradus honorum, degrees of honor. Vicat. A pulpit; a year; a generation. Du Cange. A port; any place where a vessel can be brought to land. Du Cange,

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat.

In civil and canon law. A degree in relationship. Inst. 3. 6. Dig, 38. 11. The word properly denotes a step, and is figuratively used, like the Gr. ^adfibs, to express the course of relationship upwards, downwards, or collaterally, stepping as it were (gradiendo,) from one person to another in the series. See Degree, De gradu in gradum; from degree to degree, or from step to step. Bract, fol. 374. Bracton uses it to signify the place occupied by a person in a scale or scheme of consanguinity; and where such place was left vacant by the death of such person, he calls it gradus vacuus, {a vacant or void degree.) Bract, fol. 134, 374.