Gavel

In English law. Custom; tribute ; toll; yearly rent; payment of revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-gavel, gavel-fodder, etc. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt 142a.

— Gavelbred. Rent reserved in bread, corn, or provision; rent payable in kind. Cowell.

— Gavelcester. A eertnin measure of rent-ale. Cowell.

— Gavelgeld. That which yields annual profit or toll. The tribute or toll itself. Cowell; Du Cange.

— Gavelherte. A service of plowing performed by a customary tenant. Cowell; Du Cange.

— Gaveling men. Tenants who paid a reserved rent, besides some customary duties to be done by them. Cowell.

— Gavel-man. A tenant liable to the payment of gavel or tribute. Somn. Gavelkind, 23.

— Gavelmed. A customary service of mowing meadow-land or cutting grass, (consuetudo fol-candt.) Blount.

— Gavelrep. Bedreap or bid-reap; the duty of reaping at the bid or command of the lord. Somn. Gavelkind, 19, 21; Cowell.

— Gavelwerk. A customary service, either manuopera, by the person of the tenant, or cwrropera, by his carte or carriages Blount; Somn.' Gavelkind, 24; Du Cange.