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Gremium

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Lap; bosom.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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 keeping of the law.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. Bosom, v. In gremio, etc.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. Bosom. In gremio legis: in the lap of the law.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. Bosom. De gremio mittere; to send from the bosom. A term formerly used to denote the sending of a person as a delegate from a conventual church, monastery, or other body of persons; a latere legare being the proper phrase where the delegate was sent by an individual. Spelman.