Glossa

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A gloss.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat A gloss, explanation or interpretation. The glossœ of the Roman law are brief illustrative comments or annotations on the text of Justinian's collections, made by the professors who taught or lectured on them about the twelfth century, (especially at the law school of Bologna,) and were hence called "glossators." These glosses were at first inserted in the text with the words to which they referred, and were called "glossœ interlineares;" but afterwards they were placed in the margin, partly at the side, and partly under the text, and called "glossœ marginalesA selection of them was made by Accursius, between A. D. 1220 and 1260, under the title of "Olossa Ordinaria," which is of the greatest authority. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 90.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

LI A gloss; an explanation or ina est quae corrodit viscera textus: which eats out the bowels of the text.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. A gloss; an interpretation or

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. [from Gr. glossa, a tongue.] A gloss, explanation or interpretation. The glosses of the Roman law are brief illustrative comments or annotations on the text of Justinian's collections, made by the professors who taught or lectured on them about the twelfth century, and were hence called glossators. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 66, § 80. These glosses were at first inserted in the text with the words to which they referred, and were called glossae interlineares; but afterwards they were placed in the margin, partly at the side, and partly under the text, and called glossae marginales. A selection of them was made by Accursius, between A. D. 1220, and 1260, under the title of Glossa ordinaria, which is of the greatest authority. Id. ibid. Glossa viperina est quae corrodit viscera textus. That is a viperous gloss which eats out the bowels of the text. 10 Co. 70, Case of the Marshalsea. Otherwise expressed, Viperina est expositio quae corrodit viscera textus. 11 Id. 34 a, Powlter's case. 2 Bulstr. 179.