Glans
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
Acorns, nuts or mast of the oak and other trees, as the chesnut and beech. It seems to have included any produce of trees that might be fed upon by animals, as distinguished from herbage. Glandis nomine continetur glans castanea, fagina, ficus et nuces, et alia quaeque quae edi vel pasci poterunt praeter herbam. Bract. fol.
226 b. 2 Inst. 411.