Law Dictionary Definitions

gratification.Archaic. A voluntarily given reward or recompense for a service or benefit; a gratuity. [Blacks Law 8th]

gratia mandatarii (gray-shee-<<schwa>> man-d<<schwa>>-tair-ee-I). [Latin] Hist. For the sake of the man-datory. • The phrase appeared in reference to the irrevocability of a mandate given solely for the mandatory’s benefit. “Gratia mandatarii …. In the general case, a mandate, being for the benefit of the mandant, may be recalled by him at pleasure. Mandates, however,…

gratia curiae (gray-shee-<<schwa>> kyoor-ee-ee or -I). [Latin] Favor of the court. Cf. RIGOR JURIS. [Blacks Law 8th]

GRAT.abbr.GRANTOR-RETAINED ANNUITY TRUST. [Blacks Law 8th]

grassum (gras-<<schwa>>m). [Law Latin] Scots law. 1. An additional lease payment made in anticipation of or in addition to rent. Pl. grassums.2.GRESSUME. “Grassum; an anticipation of rent in a gross or lump sum …. In questions with singular successors there is no limitation of the power to take grassums, only the rent must not be…

grass hearth.Hist. A tenant’s customary service, consisting of the tenant’s bringing his plow to the lord’s land and plowing it for one day. [Blacks Law 8th]

grant to uses.Hist. A conveyance of legal title to real property to one person for the benefit of another. • If, for example, A conveyed land to B and his heirs to the use of C and his heirs, B — the feoffee to uses — acquired seisin in and had possession of the land…

  grantor trust.See TRUST. [Blacks Law 8th]

grantor’s lien.See vendor’s lien under LIEN. [Blacks Law 8th]

grantor-retained unitrust.See TRUST. [Blacks Law 8th]