A hand dart Cowell.

The gathering of grain after reapers, or of grain left ungathered byreapers. Held uot to be a right at common law. 1 II. Bl. 51.

A turf, sod, or clod of earth. The soil or ground; cultivated land in general.Church land, (solum et dos ecclesice.) Spelman. See GLEBE.

Villein-socmen, who could uot be removed from the land whilethey did the service due. Bract, c. 7; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 209.

Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell

In ecclesiastical law. The land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiasticalbenefice. In Roman law. A clod; turf; soil. Hence, the soil of an inheritance; an

In Saxon law. A fraternity.

Commissioners appointed to determine differences between scholarsin a school or university and the townsmen of the place. Jacob.

Lat. In the civil law. A husband’s sister. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.

An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal;an annotation, explanation, or comment on any passage in the text of a work, for purposesof elucidation or amplification. Particularly applied to

Lat. A gloss, explanation, or interpretation. The glossce of the Roman laware brief illustrative comments or annotations on the text of Justinian’s collections,made by the professors who taught or lectured on them

In the civil law. A commentator or annotator. A term applied to theprofessors and teachers of the Roman law in the twelfth century, at the head of whomwas Irnerius. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

The statute is the 0 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment,and was the first statute giving costs in actions.

Extraordinary rewards formerly given to officers of courts, etc.;money formerly given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders are left forexecution to the clerk of assize and judges’ officers.

It was an ancient custom on a maiden assize, when there was no offenderto be tried, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. It is animmemorial

A hollow between two mountains; a valley or glen. Co. Litt 56.

To be dismissed from a court. To issue from a court. “The court said a mandamusmust go.” 1 W. Bl. 50. “Let a supersedeas go.” 5 Mod. 421. “The writ may go.”

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters outof the land Into the sea. Callis describes goats as “usual engines erected and built withportcullises and doors of timber and

The answer made by a prisoner, when arraigned, inanswer to the question, “How will you be tried?” In the ancient practice he had thechoice (as appears by the question) whether to submit

That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob.