Glebe
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In ecclesiastical law
The land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice.
Ir Roman law
A clod; turf; soil. Hence, the soil of an inheritance; an agrariaa estate. Servi addietit glebe were serfs attached to and passing with the estate.
Cod. 11, 47, 7, 21; Nov. 54, 1.