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, […]

Process of etching a printable onto the printing plate . Contrast to letterpress and flexographic printing. The printing ink transfers directly to the paper. Contrast this to offset printing . […]

Metric (SI) measurement for absorbed radiation units. Equals 100 radiation absorbed doses, or RADs. UK resident Dr. L. Harold Gray (1905-1965) pioneered radiation as a cancer treatment, giving his name […]

A second unsolicited bidder in a HOSTILE TAKEOVER transaction that attempts to take advantage of the target company

An organization ‘s position with an investment bank renders these stocks ineligible for trade. Ongoing matters of acquisitions and mergers of companies push stocks onto the gray list and are […]

1. Selling in unauthorized sales-territory, or using an unauthorized dealers in an authorized territory. Undercutting authorized sales territories and authorized dealers with prices lower than wholesale or distributor charges. Shady […]

Image display or printing with each pixel being only black, or white, or a shade of gray. Due to pixel-control by more than one bit of computer memory. The greater […]

Waste water relatively clean. Sourced from the kitchen, or tub or sink or shower, not the toilet, and laundering. Usable with little or no treatment for landscape irrigation and other […]

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. […]

a term that applies to a major injury.

See great bodily harm .

Decade-long financial- depression in the US from 1930 through 1940. Its devastating worldwide impact resides as the worst in living memory. Its precise causes are disputed. However, its beginning occurred […]

Such a measure of care, prudence, and assiduity as persons of unusual prudence and discretion exercise in regard to anyand all of their own affairs, or such as persons of […]

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,’ […]

Puts forth the view that any price, as unrealistic as it might be, is warranted if one buyer believes that another buyer will pay an even higher price for the […]

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.

RISK measures for DERIVATIVES that are used to determine the price sensitivity of contracts to changes in the UNDERLYING ASSET (DELTA, GAMMA), VOLATILITY (VEGA), passage of time (THETA), and INTEREST […]

Having attributes or objectives environmentally positive.

Specific advertising focused on promoting environment healthy persons, places, and things. Very environmentally friendly operations and product packaging is key to such promotions.

Building and structural design philosophy to maximize renewable energy methods, the use of environmentally friendly materials, and reusable, recyclable objects within the operations.

A business functioning with no negative impact. Local or global environments, the community, and the economy benefit. Forward-thinking policies for environmental concerns and policies affecting human rights are the entity’s […]

US immigration authorities issue alien registration cards to non-US citizens as permits to live and work in the US for an indefinite period. The use of green paper for these […]

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 […]