GREAT

As used in various compound legal terms, thls word generally means extraordinary, that ls, exceeding the common or ordinary measure or standard, in respect to physical size, or importance, dignity, etc. See Gulf, etc., R. Co. v. Smith, 87 Tex. 348, 28 s. w. 520. -Great cattle. All manner of beasts except sheep and yearlings. 2 Rolle, 173.-Great charter, Magna Oharta, (q. 11.) As to great "Care," "Ponds," "Seal," ''Tithes," see those titles. GREAT LAW, THE, or "The Body of Laws of the Province of PennsylvaniA and Territories thereunto belonging, Past at an A embly held at Chester, alias Upland, the 7th day of the tenth month, called 'December,' 1682." This was the first code of laws established in Pennsylvania, and ls justly celebrated for the provision in lts first chapter for, liberty of conscience. Bouvier., [s. 554]