Grithstole
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A place of sanctuary. Cowell.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A seat, chair, or place of peace; a sanctuary; a stone within a church-gate, to which an offender might flee.
Defined under Grith in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
sax.
In Saxon law. A seat, chair, or place of peace; a
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Sax. In Saxonlaw. A seat, chair, or place of peace; a sanctuary; a stone within a church-gate, to which an offender might flee.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Sax. [from gritk, peace, and stol, a seat or chair.J In Saxon law. A seat, chair, or place of peace; a sanctuary; a stone withm a church gate, to which an offender might flee. So called in an old rhyming charter of King Athelstan to the chapel of St. Wilfrid of Rippon: And within yair Kyrke yate, At ye Stan yat GHthstoU hate.