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(quote-book), prolocutor pro tempore|title=The Ansvver of the Assembly of Divines by Authority of Parliament Now Sitting at Westminster. Unto the Reasons Given in to This Assembly by the Dissenting Brethren, of Their Now Bringing in a Model of Their Way.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) John Field for Ralph Smith,(nb...)|year=1645|page=8|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NPJbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA8|oclc=1058751806|passage=They have brought in two Papers, they ſay, in the nature of a ''Gravamen''. I take it to be a ''Gravamen'', and of ill conſequence for the time to come, when we have liberty to give in Reaſons to the Houſes, that they ſhould in writing give in ''Gravamen's'' to us.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Iohn Owsley, for Henry Shephard,(nb...)|year=1658|page=97|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQhlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA97|oclc=1227544798|passage=Let there be a tranſpoſition of the words, mercy for truth, in theſe two gravamens, and then ſee whether the ſubject matter be not the very ſame. I muſt therefore deſire the Reader to receive ſatisfaction unto this, from that before written, which howſoever calculated for the meridian of mercy, yet may generally ſerve as an Antidote againſt all his Gravamens.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Edward and (w),(nb...)|date=4 October 1766|year_published=1768|volume=I|page=308|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gf0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA308|oclc=959735609|passage=After dinner ſome viſitors came in, and among the reſt two or three lawyers, whom I had ſeen in Guſtrow, and who were like to ſpoil our mirth by introducing their jejune talk of gravamina and appeals. One of them could tell twenty, another thirty, another forty, gravamina on the ſide of the burghers of the province.
(quote-book)|year=1997|page=62|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvRUiSrUFSAC&pg=PA62|isbn=978-0-945636-88-5|passage=Complaints about the burdens of keeping the lord's hunting dogs are found in several lists of gravamens preceding the Peasants' War, and in the Tyrol "There were special levies tenant farmers for the dogs … of the landlord."
(quote-book)|editors=Janet Burton; Phillipp Schofield; Björn Weiler|title=Thirteenth Century England XIV: Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|publisher=The Boydell Press, (w)|year=2013|page=137|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSgL0jozFZwC&pg=PA137|isbn=978-1-84383-809-8|issn=0269-6967|passage=In 1239, the bishops presented ''gravamina'' to the papal legate detailing 'prejudices of ecclesiastical liberty by the lord king and his bailiffs'.
A document sent by the Lower House of Convocation to the Upper House to inform the latter of certain grievances in the church.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Thomas Wood, for John Nicks,(nb...)|year=1722|volume=III|page=24|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KhxaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24|oclc=1227582867|passage=In the mean while, it was reſolved at the Synod, that ſince they muſt wait for the cited ''Remonſtrants'', they would enter upon ſome of the ''Gravamina'', or Points of Grievance which the Churches had laid before the Provincial Synods.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(publishers)|Rivingtons,(nb...)|year=1855|page=316|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=engZp79hlOkC&pg=PA316|oclc=7807822|passage=Sometimes also committees were appointed to hear the complaints of clergymen and form "gravamina" upon the evidence produced. And "gravamina" of such a formal and authoritative character, if emanating from the lower house, were usually presented by the prolocutor.
(quote-journal), Chancellor|Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain|title=Cox ''against'' Peele|journal=Reports|The English Reports|location=Edinburgh|publisher=& Maxwell|William Green & Sons; London: Stevens & Sons|date=19 April 1788|year_published=1903|volume=XXIX (Chancery, volume IX)|page=187|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5lIG_A98oMgC&pg=PA187|oclc=42342565|passage=Properly, no evidence can be read here that was not read below, and if evidence, which ought to have been read there, was rejected, that ought to be the ''gravamen'' of the appeal.
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(quote-journal).|magazine=Annual Register|The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the Year 1820|location=London|publisher=(...) Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; ''et al.''|year=1822|volume_plain=part II|pages=902–903|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5A-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA903|oclc=210328011|passage=Falsehood, which was in ordinary cases the ''gravamen'' of the complaint, was omitted altogether in the information against him.
(quote-journal)|date=18 November 1995|year_published=summer 1995|volume=149|section=footnote 30|page=151|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=djv7nSD6K9sC&pg=RA2-PA151|issn=0026-4040|oclc=1248014424|passage=The gravamen of Count One was that the defendants had conspired to commit crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. (..) The gravamen of Count Two was that they had planned, prepared, initiated, waged—or conspired to plan, prepare, initiate or wage—an aggressive war.
(quote-book) However, it is not always clear what is meant by ‘gravamen’. Two alternatives present themselves. Gravamen might mean the part of the offence which makes the conduct wrongful and therefore suitable for criminal sanctions. Alternatively, it might mean the conduct which the offence is intended to control; that is, the gravamen of the offence depends upon its purpose.
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The essence or most important aspect of a piece of writing, a point of argument, etc.; the gist.
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(quote-journal). Second Edition. London: Longman, Green & Co. review|editor=William Leask|magazine=The Rainbo A Magazine of Christian Literature, with Special Reference to the Revealed Future of the Church and the World|location=London|publisher=W. Kent & Co.,(nb...)|date=1 September 1869|volume=VI|issue=69|page=432|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzEEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA432|column=1|oclc=39520061|passage=That neither Dr. Leask, nor myself, acted on such a principle, is the whole gravamen of our opponent's furious assaults upon us.
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(quote-book)|series=Serial No. 93|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office|date=26 April 1990|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvInAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25|oclc=869428235|passage=The grit of your argument—gravamen; I haven't used that in a long time since I practiced—the gravamen of your argument is that availability is the test, the key. (..) Tell me where is the gravamen of your argument?
(quote-book), Esq; Secretary, First, to the Council of State, and afterwards to the Two Protectors, Cromwell|Oliver and (w).(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) For the executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles; Thomas Woodward,(nb...); and Charles Davis,(nb...)|date=25 April 1657|year_published=1742|volume=VI (Containing Papers from the Year MDCLVII to MDCLVIII)|pages=169–170|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJYjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA170|oclc=879723643|passage=In the ſaid conference, the ſaid lords communicated unto us further, that ſince the departure of the laſt poſt there hath declared to the reſident of Sweden, beſides the gravamina about ſome unequitableneſs and injuries committed concerning the tolls and paſſage of the Sound, that reparation and ſatisfaction muſt be made to the king and crown of Denmark in this treaty to be made with Sweden, (..)
(quote-book)|chapter=That Mr. Bagshaw (theologian)|Edward Bagshaw’s Instilling Suspicions into the Peoples Minds, as if English Divines, &c. Had a Designe to Introduce Popery again, is a Mere Acting over the Late Rebellion|title=A Non Est Inventus Return’d to Mr. Edward Bagshaw’s Enquiry, and Vainly Boasted Discovery of Weakness in the Grounds of the Churches Infallibility.(nb...)|location=London?|publisher=[(glossary)]|year=1662|page=31|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZtkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA31|oclc=15338920|passage=When certain intereſt of a few great perſons were complied with, and ſeveral too juſtly complained of ''Gravamina'' from the Roman Court remedied, there might be a poſſibility of cloſing again with that Church which they then only ſo far deſerted.
(quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...) J. Archdeacon printer to the of Cambridge|University of Cambridge; and sold by T. & J. Merrill,(nb...); White (publisher)|Benjamin White, Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell, and J. Wilkie,(nb...)|year=1779|section=paragraph 35|page=126|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7Q3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA126|oclc=1227557061|passage=In an Appeal, whether from a ''Gravamen'' or the Sentence, an (smallcaps) is iſſued from the Superior Court to the Inferior, to ſtop Proceedings.
(quote-book), for Publishing a Pamphlet, Intitled Peace and Union, &c.(nb...)|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...) Flower|Benjamin Flower, and sold by W. H. Lunn, and W. Page,(nb...)|year=1793|page=213|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNc9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA212|oclc=1102743687|passage=The court was unanimouſly of opinion, that Mr. Frend ſhould now proceed to the gravamina. And Mr. Frend did proceed to the gravamina accordingly; in the courſe of which he read to the court a paper, which, he alledged, he had been prevented by the vice-chanceller from reading in the court below, before ſentence was pronounced upon him.