Blacksmith - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: blacksmithBlacksmith
A smith who works in iron with a forge and makes iron utensils horseshoes etc...
Blackwork
Work wrought by blacksmiths so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths...
Ironsmith
A worker in iron one who makes and repairs utensils of iron a blacksmith...
Pritchel
A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe...
Smith
One who forges with the hammer one who works in metals as a blacksmith goldsmith silversmith and the like...
Smithy
The workshop of a smith esp a blacksmith a smithery a stithy...
Gretna green marriage
Gretna green marriage, a marriage celebrated at Gretna, in Dumfries (bordering on the county of Cumberland), in Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consent alone before witnesses without any other formality. See PER VERBA DE PR'SENTI.A marriage entered into in a jurisdiction other than where the parties reside to avoid some legal impediment that exists where they live; a runaway marriage, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 709.When Lord Hardwicke's repealed Marriage Act of 1753 (26 Geo. 2, c. 33), rendered the publicationof banns (or a licence) necessary in England, it became usual for persons who wished to marry clandestinely to go to Gretna Green, the nearest part of Scotland, and marry according to the Scotch law; so a sort of chapel was built at Gretna Green, in which the English marriage service was performed by the village blacksmith; as to the validity of such marriages, see Hubback on Succession. But by the Marriage (Scotland) Act, 1856 (19 ...
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