Definition of Glebae

1. gleba [n] - See also: gleba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glebae

gleamingly
gleamings
gleams
gleamy
glean
gleanable
gleaned
gleaner
gleaners
gleaning
gleanings
gleans
gleave
gleaves
gleba
glebae (current term)
glebal
glebe
glebe-house
glebe-land
glebe house
glebeless
glebes
glebous
gleby
gled
glede
gledes
gledge
gledged

Literary usage of Glebae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Leases: Explaining the Nature, Form, and Effect of the by Robert Bell, William Bell (1825)
"... glebae of latter times; for Du Cange observes, " quibus " quidem verbis satis ... glebae vocabant qua- " les ferme fuere apud nostros, qui servorum ..."

2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"... senile services but certain and named ; who indeed are called glebae ... de recto according to the custom of the manor, and so they are called glebae ..."

3. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"... they came back and received the same tenements to hold in villeinage by doing servile works, but certain and specified works; and they are called glebae ..."

4. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"... glebae, or were subjected to some species of servitude similar to that of ... glebae. On that estate they were bound to reside, and to perform certain ..."

5. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri Quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"Coloni (in this sense) were persons inseparably attached from birth to the soil of some particular estate or district (glebae ..."

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