Glebe
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The land which belongs to a church. The dowry of the church. Oleba e$t terra qua consistit doe ecclesice.
Town of Pawlet V. Clark, 9 Cra. (U. S.) 329, 3 L. Ed. 735.
In Civil Law. The soil of an inheritance. There were serfs of the glebe, called gleba addicU.
Code 11. 47. 7, 21; Nov. 64, c.
L trate a subject,— especially the text of an author. See Webster, Diet In Civil Law. Olosew, or glossemata, were words which needed explanation. Calvinus, Lex. The explanations of such words. Calvinus, Lex. Especially used of the short comments or explanations of the text of the Roman Law, made during the twelfth century by the teachers at the schools of Bologna, etc., who were hence called gloasatora, of which glosses Accursius made a compilation which possesses great authority, called glossa ordinaria. These glosses were at first written between the lines of the text (glossal interlineares), afterwards, on the margin, close by and partly under the text (glossal marginales).
Cush. Intr. to Rom. Law 130.