Gressume

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Same as Gersome.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant on the death of the lord. 1 Strange, 654; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 615, § 778. Called also "grassum," and "grossome."

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

gressum.

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

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In English law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant on the death of the lord. 1 Strange, 654; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 615, $778. Called also “grassum,” and “yrossome.”

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

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

t. Qrassum.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

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.