Expletia
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Explida.
L. Lat. [from explere, to fill or make up; to complete or make perfect.] In old English law. Esplees; the profits of land. Bract, fol.
40, 44 b.
Excoluit terrain, et hlada expendit, et redditus et expletia cepit; he cultivated and sowed the land, and took the rents and esplees. Id. fol.
50 b, 206 b, 372 b, 373.
So called, because the estate is made complete and perfect by reaping the explees, that is, the fruit and commodity thereof.
6 Co. 68 b.