Category: G

The time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates; i. e., from the year 15S2.

An English silver coin (value four pence) issued from the fourteenth to theseventeenth century. See Reg. v. Con- nell, 1 Car. & K. 191.

In Spanish law. A guild; an association of workmen, artificers, or merchantsfollowing the same trade or business; designed to protect and further theinterests of their craft.

In old English law. A merchant or trader who engrossed all vendiblemerchandise; an engrosser. St 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See ENGROSSER.

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

A liquor saloon, barroom, or dram-shop ; a place where intoxicatingliquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. E. 602.

The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over parliamentaryelection petitions was transferred from the whole house of commons toselect committees Repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 22, $ 1.

In old records. A deep hollow or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell.

In English law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant onthe death of the lord. 1 Strange, 654; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 615,

A marriage celebrated at Gretna, iu Dumfries, (bordering on the county of Cumberland,)iu Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consentalone, without any other formality. When the marriage act (20 Geo. II. c. 33) renderedthe publication of banns, or a license, necessary in England, it became usual forpersons who wished to marry clandestinely to go to Gretna Green, the nearest part ofScotland, and marry according to the Scotch law; so a sort of chapel was built at GretnaGreen, in which the English marriage service was performed by the village blacksmith. Wharton.