Gleaning

‘The act of gathering such grain ina field where it grew, which may have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered. There is a custom in England, it is said, by which the poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another’s land after harvest without being guilty of a trespass.

3 Bl..Com. 212.

But it has been decided that the community are not entitled to claim this privilege as a right.

1 Hen. Bl. 51.

Inthe United States, it is believed, no such right exists. This right seems to have existed in some parts of France. Merl. Répert. mot, Glanage. As to whether gleaning would or would not amount to larceny, vide Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 242; 2 Russ. on Cr. 99.