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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

A sanctuary.

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.