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green goods.Slang. Counterfeit money. [Blacks Law 8th]

  greenfield site. 1. Land that has never been developed. • Such land is presumably uncontaminated. Cf. BROWNFIELD SITE. 2. Property acquired as an investment, esp. for establishing a new business.  [Blacks Law 8th]

  Green Cloth.See BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH.  [Blacks Law 8th]

green-card marriage.See MARRIAGE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

  green card.A registration card evidencing a resident alien’s status as a permanent U.S. resident. [Blacks Law 8th]

  greenback,n. Slang. A legal-tender note of the United States; any note issued by a federal reserve bank. • The term was coined in 1862 when the backs of American paper currency were first printed in green ink.  [Blacks Law 8th]  

gree (gree), n.[Law French] Hist. A satisfaction received by a party for an offense or injury against the party. See SATISFACTION(1). “Gree comes of the French word gree, good liking: and it signifies in our law, contentment or satisfaction; as in the statute of 1 R. 2, c. 15, to make gree to the parties…

  Great Writ.See HABEAS CORPUS. [Blacks Law 8th]

Great Waters Program.A scheme created by Congress in 1990 to make the Environmental Protection Agency more directly responsible for protecting large bodies of fresh water and coastal waters from environmental harm caused by air pollution. Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, 42 USCA § 7412(m). [Blacks Law 8th]

great tithe.See TITHE.  [Blacks Law 8th]