1. Trust established by an agreement that is not a will. 2. Trustor keeps control property entrusted, realizing taxes on income from the property.
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GRANTZ
In old English law . Noblemen or grandees. Jacob.
GRANULARITY
Conveys the perception of great or greater detail. Typically used when discussing a model or decision making process. More granularity means greater detail. An example is the level of detail, […]
GRAPH
Depiction of data point relationships in a two-dimensional drawing. The relationship , most commonly between two set of numbers, displays in several different ways. It can be a line, a […]
GRAPHIC
Representing or depicting an item as an image visually.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Architectural planning of the images, patterns, layouts, and other image devices organized into a coherent, distinctive layout and format that will convey wanted in a way to allow printing or […]
GRAPHICAL DEVICE INTERFACE
Windows operating system functionality of display and print features. A graphic is displayed or printed, controlled by the computer operating system, not the monitor or the printer.
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)
Interface, point-of-contact software managing what passes forth and back between the computer and its user. Whatever displays, whatever a user enters, by keystroke, mouseclick, finger or stylus touch, or speech, […]
GRASS HEARTH
In old records. The grazing or turning up the earth with a plow.The name of a customary service for inferior tenants to bring their plows, and do oneday’s work for […]
GRASS WEEK
Rogation week , so called anciently in the inns of court and chancery.
GRASS WIDOW
A slang term for a woman separated from her husband by abandonmentor prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. Webster.
GRASS-ROOTS COST ESTIMATE
Job or work costing estimated by those who will do the work is used to develop the budget.
GRASSON, or GRASSUM
A fine paid upon the transfer of a copyhold estate.
GRATIFICATION
A gratuity; a recompense or reward for services or benefits, givenvoluntarily, without solicitation or promise.
GRATIS
Freely; gratuitously; without reward or consideration .
GRATIS APPEARANCE
This term applies to a person appearing voluntarily in a court who has not waited for a summons or a subpoena.
GRATIS DICTUM
A voluntary assertion ; a statement which a party is not legallybound to make, or in which he is not held to precise accuracy. 2 Kent, Comm. 480;Medbury v. Watson, […]
GRATUITOUS
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, […]
GRATUITOUS AND ONEROUS
Gratuitous contracts are those of which the object is the benefit of the person with whom it is made, without any profit or advantage received or promised as a consideration […]
GRAVA
In old English law . A grove; a small wood; a coppice or thicket Co. Litt 46.A thick wood of high trees. Blount
GRAVAMEN
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 […]
GRAVATIO
In old English law . An accusation or Impeachment . Leg. Ethel, c. 19.
GRAVE
A sepulcher. A place where a dead body Is Interred.
GRAVEYARD
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. […]
GRAVEYARD MARKET
Bear, or down, market with substantial losses facing sellers, with buyers staying out of the market, keeping liquid, not investing. The name comes from no action, or trading life, in […]