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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....
Silver certificate
A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount payable to the bearer on demand In the United States and its possessions it is issued against the deposit of silver coin and is not legal tender but is receivable for customs taxes and all public dues In the United States the redeemability in silver of silver certificates was discontinued in the 1970s they are still 1997 accepted as money at the face dollar value but cannot be redeemed in silver...
Free silver
The free coinage of silver often specif the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold as at the ratio of 16 to 1 which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively...
Silvering
The art or process of covering metals wood paper glass etc with a thin film of metallic silver or a substance resembling silver also the firm do laid on as the silvering of a glass speculum...
Suit-silver, or Suter-silver
Suit-silver, or Suter-silver, a small rent or sum of money paid in some manors to excuse the freeholders' appearance at the courts of their lord....
Green cloth
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...
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