Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In law, the products of land, as the hay of meadows, herbage of pastures, corn of arable lands, rents, services, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Old Eng. Law) The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law, UK, obsolete The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.

Etymologies

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Latin expletia, Old French espleit. Compare exploit.

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