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*The French term for clerk of the court. In France these clerks keep duplicates of civil registration records for the most recent 100 years. | *The French term for clerk of the court. In France these clerks keep duplicates of civil registration records for the most recent 100 years. | ||
===== Gregorian calendar ===== | ===== Gregorian calendar ===== | ||
*The calendar system used in most of the present-day world. Pope Gregory XIII introduced this calendar in 1582 to correct the Julian calendar, which because of miscalculated leap years no longer matched the solar year. In the Gregorian calendar, the year begins on 1 January and has 365 days. Years that are divisible by four have an extra day in February, called a leap day. The year of a new century, however, has a leap year only if it is divisible by 400. Various countries adopted the Gregorian calendar at various times. England and the American colonies adopted it in 1752. | *The calendar system used in most of the present-day world. Pope Gregory XIII introduced this calendar in 1582 to correct the Julian calendar, which because of miscalculated leap years no longer matched the solar year. In the Gregorian calendar, the year begins on 1 January and has 365 days. Years that are divisible by four have an extra day in February, called a leap day. The year of a new century, however, has a leap year only if it is divisible by 400. Various countries adopted the Gregorian calendar at various times. England and the American colonies adopted it in 1752. | ||
===== Gretna Green ===== | |||
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law common law], a "Gretna Green marriage" means a marriage transacted in a jurisdiction that was not the residence of the parties being married, to avoid restrictions or procedures imposed by the parties' home jurisdiction. See ''Black's Law Dictionary''. The original Gretna Green is a town by that name, famous for runaway marriages, and just over the border in south Scotland. When English laws prohibited marriage under the age of 21, some younger couples crossed the Scottish border and the first town on the road was Gretna Green. | |||
===== Griffith’s Land Valuation book, Ireland ===== | ===== Griffith’s Land Valuation book, Ireland ===== | ||