A slang term for a woman separated from her husband by abandonmentor prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. Webster.

A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhold estate.

A gratuity; a recompense or reward for services or benefits, givenvoluntarily, without solicitation or promise.

Freely; gratuitously; without reward or consideration.

Without valuable or legal consideration. A term applied to deeds ofconveyance and to bailments and other contracts.In old English law. Voluntary; without force, fear, or favor. Bract, fols. 11, 17.As to gratuitous

In old English law. A grove; a small wood; a coppice or thicket Co. Litt 46.A thick wood of high trees. Blount

The burden or gist of a charge; the grievance or injury specially complained of.In English ecclesiastical law. A grievance complained of by the clergy before thebishops in convocation.

A sepulcher. A place where a dead body Is Interred.

A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes definedin statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as “six or more”) areburied. See Stockton v. Weber, 98

Grievous; great. Ad grave damnum, to the grievous damage. 11 Coke, 40.

A graf; a chief magistrate or officer. A term derived from the moreancient “grafio,” and used in combination with various other words, as an oflicial title inGermany; as Margravius, Rheingravius, Landgravius, etc.

An inn of court. See INNS OF COURT.

As used in various compound legal terms, this word generally means extraordinary,that is, exceeding the common or ordinary measure or standard, in respectto physical size, or importance, dignity, etc. See Gulf, etc.,

or “The Body of Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania andTerritories thereunto belonging, Past at an Assembly held at Chester, alias Upland, the7th day of the tenth month, called ‘December,’ 10S2.” This

Satisfaction for an offense committed or injury done. Cowell.

A colloquial expression to signify a time indefinitely remote, therebeing no such division of time known to the Greeks.

In English law. A board or court of justice held in tlie countinghouseof the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferiorofficers. It takes its name from the

The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United Statestreasury issues. It is not applied to any other species of paper currency; and, when employediu testimony by way of description. Is

In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley.

In French law. Registrars, or clerks of the courts. They are officialsattached to the courts to assist the judges in their duties. They keep the minutes, writeout the judgments, orders, and other