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Glebe

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In ecclesiastical law

The land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman law. A clod; turf; soll. Hence, the soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate. Servi addicti glebœ were serfs attached to and passing with the estate.

Cod. 11, 47, 7, 21; Nov. 54, 1.