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GRADATIM

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In old English law. By degrees or steps; step by step; from one degree to another. Bract fol. 64. … [Read more...]

GOD

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From the Saxon god, good. The source of all good; the supreme being. 1. Every man is presumed to believe in God, and he who opposes a witness on the ground of his unbelief is bound to prove it. 3 Bouv. Inst. u. 3180. 2. Blasphemy against the Almighty, by denying his being or providence, was an offence punishable at common law by fine and imprisonment, or other infamous corporal … [Read more...]

GOD AND MY COUNTRY

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The answer made by a prisoner, when arraigned, in answer to the question, "How will you be tried?" In the ancient practice he had the choice (as appears by the question) whether to submit to the trial by ordeal (by God) or to be tried by a Jury, (by the country;) and U is probable that the original form of the answer was, "By God or my country," whereby the prisoner averred his … [Read more...]

GOLDEN PARACHUTE

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A preferential contract between a corporation and an executive where the executive will be provided with substantially high exit payments in the event the executive is removed as a result of a change of ownership (takeover) or an early retirement. … [Read more...]

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