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.