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  Grenville Act.Hist. A statute that transferred jurisdiction of parliamentary election petitions from the whole House of Commons to select committees. • The Act was passed in 1770 and repealed in 1828.  [Blacks Law 8th]

  gremio legis, in.See IN GREMIO LEGIS. [Blacks Law 8th]

  gremio juris, in.See IN GREMIO JURIS. [Blacks Law 8th]

  Gregorian Code.See CODEX GREGORIANUS. [Blacks Law 8th]

Gregorian calendar.See NEW STYLE. [Blacks Law 8th]

greffier (gref-ee-<<schwa>>r or gref-yay), n.[Law French] Hist. A registrar, esp. of a court; the court recordkeeper [Blacks Law 8th]

  green wax.(pl.) Hist. An Exchequer order (an estreat) directing a sheriff to collect the fines and amercements listed in the order. • The name derives from the color of the wax that the Exchequer used on the estreat to certify its authenticity. See ESTREAT(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

  Green River ordinance.A local licensing law that protects residents from unwanted peddlers and salespersons, typically by prohibiting door-to-door solicitations without prior consent. • The ordinance takes its name from Green River, Wyoming, which enacted the first such law in the early 20th century before others came into vogue during the 1930s and 1940s throughout…

  Green Paper on Copyright and the Challenge of Technology.Copyright. A 1988 European Commission pub-lication that laid out a plan to harmonize the copyright laws of member nations, esp. laws relating to information technology. • The Green Paper was followed by a series of directives that mandated uniform policies regarding copyright and new technologies. —…

  greenmail. 1. The act or practice of buying enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover and then selling the stock back to the corporation at an inflated price. 2. The money paid for stock in the corporation’s buyback. Cf. BLACKMAIL(1); FEEMAIL; GRAYMAIL. 3. A shareholder’s act of filing or threatening to…