A little sword or dagger; a kind of sedge. Mat. Paris.

Lat. A sword. An ancient emblem of defense. Hence the ancient earls orcomites (the king’s attendants, advisers, and associates in his government) were madeby being girt with swords, (gladio succincti.)The emblem of

A sword, lance, or horseman’s staff. One of the weapons allowed in a trial by combat.

A term used in St 1 Jac.I. c. 7, for wandering rogues or vagrants.

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.