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  • GLEBE
    In ecclesiastieal law. The land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman law. A clod; turf; soil. Hence, the soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate. Servi addicti glebes were serfs attached to and passing with the estate. Cod. 11, 47, More...
  • GLISCYWA
    In Saxon law. A fraternity.
  • GLOMERELLS
    Commissioners appointed to determine differences between scholars in a school or university and the townsmen of the place. Jacob.
  • GLOS
    Lat. In the civil law. A husband's sister. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.
  • GLOSS
    An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an annotation, explanation, or comment on any passage in the text of a work, for purposes of elucidation or amplification. Particularly applied to the comments on the Corpus Juris.
  • GLOSSA
    Lat. A gloss, explanation, or Interpretation. The glosses of the Roman law are brief illustrative comments or annotations on the text of Justinian's collections, made by the professors who taught or lectured on them about the twelfth century, (especially at the law school of Bologna,) and were hence called "glossators" More...
  • GLOSSATOR
    In the civil law. A commentator or annotator. A term applied to the professors and teachers of the Roman law In the twelfth century, at the head of whom was Irnerlus. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 1 90.
  • GLOUCESTER, STATUTE OF
    The statute is the 6 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment, and was the first statute giving costs in actions.
  • GLOVE SILVER
    Extraordinary rewards formerly given to officers of courts; etc.; money formerly given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders are left for execution to the clerk of assize and judges' officers. Jacob.
  • GLOVES
    It was an ancient custom on a maiden assize, when there was no offender to be tried, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. It Is an immemorial custom to remove the glove from the right hand on taking oath. Wharton.
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