Legal Definition and Related Resources of Gleaning
Meaning of Gleaning
To collect or gather from a field after the crop has been reaped; to gather the leavings from a field. At common law such a taking did not amount to theft .
Gleaning Alternative Definition
The act of gathering such grain in a field where it grew as may have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered. There is a custom in England, it is said, by which the poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another’s land after harvest, without being guilty of a trespass. 3 Bl. Comm. 212. But it has been decided that the community are not entitled to claim this privilege as a right. 1 H. Bl. 51. In the United States, it is believed, no such right exists. It seems to have existed in some parts of Prance. Merlin, Repert, “Glanage.” As to whether gleaning would or would not amount to larceny, see Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 242; 2 Russ. Crimes, 99. The Jewish law may be found in the 19th chapter of Leviticus, verses 9 and 10. See Ruth ii. 2, 3; Isaiah xvii. 6.
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What is Gleaning?
A definition of gleaning is: The gathering of grain after reapers, or of grain left ungathered by reapers. More details on the Encyclopedia. Held not to be a right at common law.[1]
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- “Gleaning” in the White America Dictionary (New York, Los Angeles, London, New Delhy, Hong Kong, 1989)
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