A collection of customs, laws, aud forms of procedure in use inearly times in France. See COUTUHIER.

In English practice. Certain days in the terms, which are solemnlykept in the inns of court and chancery, viz., Candlemas day in Hilary term, Ascensionday in Easter, St. John the Baptist’s day

A farm furnished with barns, granaries, stables, and all conveniences for husbandry. Co. Litt. 5a.

A keeper of a grange or farm.

A grange. Co. Litt. 5a.

A generic term applicable to all transfers of real property. 3 Wasbb. Real Prop. 181, 353.A transfer by deed of that which cannot be passed by livery. Williams, Real Prop.147, 149; Jordan

The person by whom a grant is made.

In old English law. Noblemen or grandees. Jacob.

Rogation week, so called anciently in the inns of court and chancery.

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.