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  • GLEANING
    The gathering of grain after reapers, or of grain left ungathered by reapers. Held not to be a right at common law. 1 H. Bl. 51.
  • GLEBA
    A turf, sod, or clod of earth. The soil or ground; cultivated land in general. Church land, (solum et dos ecclesiw.) Spelman. See GLEBE.
  • GLEBAE ASCRIPTITII
    Villeln-socmen, who could not be removed from the land while they did the service due. Bract, c. 7; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 269.
  • GLEBARIAE
    Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell.
  • 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...
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