Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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glebe

[Latin "clod of earth"] 1. Roman law. The soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate. ( Serui addicti glebae ("slaves bound to the land") were serfs attached to and passing with the estate. 2. Eccles. law. Land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice.