Gale

The payment of arent, tax, duty, or annuity. A gale is the right to open and work a mine within the Hundred of St. Briavel's, or a ston6 quarry within the open lands of the Forest of Dean. The right is a license or inferest in the nature of rea! estate, coniitional on the due payment of rent and observanee of the obligations imposed on the, galee. It follows the ordinary rules as to the devolution and conveyance of real estate. The galee pays the crown a rent known as a “galeage rent,” “royalty,” or some similar name, proportionate to the quantity of minera's got from the mins or quarry, Sweet.