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Definition of Gravamens
1. gravamen [n] - See also: gravamen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravamens
Literary usage of Gravamens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson (1859)
"... and it frequently contains several counts, in which- the plaintiff assigns
different gravamens, so that if he fail in the proof of any, and substantiate ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: During by James Burrow, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Murray Mansfield (1812)
"Neither is it any objection, " that particular times and " occasions of going to
the college, arc stated and speci- " fied:" for upon particular gravamens, ..."
3. Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada by Public Archives of Canada, Adam Shortt, Arthur George Doughty, Duncan A. McArthur (1907)
"... gravamens arising to the subjects in the Province from any defects in the
state of Judicature as it at present exists (which had any material ones ..."
4. Trial of Impeachment of Levi Hubbell, Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit by T. C. Leland, Wisconsin Legislature. Senate (1853)
"I do not know how many gravamens you have. I now learn that it is for doing an
illegal act in giving advice to я suitor—to a party to a suit or ono who was ..."
5. Record Series (Yorkshire Archaeological Society) by Yorkshire Archaeological Society (1903)
"One of the chief gravamens was that the School being a Free School, Wharton had
exacted a 20^. or guinea entrance fee, and 405. a year from every boy, ..."
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