Glebe
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Ecclesiastical Law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae.
9 Cranch (U. S.) 329.
In Civil Law. The soil of an inheritance. There were serfs of the glebe, called glebae addicti.
Code, 11. 47. 7. 21; Nov, 54, c. 1.