Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Gloss
n. 1. A note inserted between the lines or in the margin of a text to explain a difficult or obscure word in the text <this edition of Shakespeare's works is bolstered by its many glosses on Elizabethan English>. 2. A collection of explanations; a glossary <the hornbook's copious gloss>. 3. Pronouncements considered collectively, usu. by courts; interpretation <the statute and its judicial gloss>.
Glossa viperina est quae corrodit viscera textus
It is a poisonous gloss that gnaws away the vitals of the text.
Postglossators
(often cap.) A group of Italian jurisconsults who were active during the 14th and 15th centuries writing commentaries and treatises that related Roman law to feudal and Germanic law, canon law, and other contemporary bodies of law. 0 The postglossators constituted the second wave of Roman-law study after its revival in the 11th century, the first being that of the glossators. - Also termed commentators. See GLOSSATORS.
glossators
(usu. cap.) A group of Italian jurisconsults who, from the 11th to the 13th centuries, were primarily responsible for the revival of the study of Roman law. They originally worked by glossing (that is, explaining in the margin) difficult or unclear passages, and gradually their writings blossomed into full-blown commentaries and discussions. See POSTGLOSSATORS.