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Green cloth. The counting-house of the king's household was commonly called the Green Cloth in respect of the green cloth upon the table whereat the lord steward, the treasurer of the king's house, and other inferior officers sat:-(1) For daily taking the accounts for all expenses of the house-hold. (2) For making provisions for the household, according to the laws and statutes of the realm. (3) For making of payments for the same. (4) For the good government of the king's servants. (5) For payment of the wages of the king's servants. The officers of the counting-house never held plea of anything, 4 Inst. 131....
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that exists where they live; a runaway marriage, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 709.When Lord Hardwicke's repealed Marriage Act of 1753 (26 Geo. 2, c. 33), rendered the publicationof banns (or a licence) necessary in England, it became usual for persons who wished to marry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 ...
green card
green card [from the fact that it was formerly colored green] : an identity card attesting the permanent resident status of an alien in the U.S. ...
i-551 (green card)
i-551 (green card) Permanent residence card or alien registration receipt card or "green card." See Lawful Permanent Resident. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
green blind
Unable to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish red...
Greenness
The quality of being green viridity verdancy as the greenness of grass or of a meadow...
Green
Green, the word is defined in Chambers, Dictionary at page 463 as adjective of the colour usually in leaves between blue and yellow in spectrum unripe, fresh, undried, raw or colour of green things, Bharuch Coconut Trading Co. Ltd. v. Municipal Corporation, AIR 1991 SC 494 (496): 1992 Supp (1) SCC 298....
Green silver
Green silver, a feudal custom in the manor of Writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a halfpenny yearly to the lord, by the name of 'green silver', Jac. Law Dict....
Green vegetables
Green vegetables, Sugarcane not covered by the expression 'green vegetable' and not exempted from sales tax, Motipur Zamindary Co. (P) Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1962 SC 660. [Bihar Sales Tax Act, 1947, (S - Notification issued under)]...
Bottle green
A dark shade of green like that of bottle glass...
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