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Gavelet

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

An obsolete writ, a kind of cessavit (g. v.), used in Kent. Cowell. A custom in Kent which practically amounted to a forfeiture of land held in gavelkind.

Hazeltine, 3 Sel. Essays in Anglo-Amer. L. H. 661.

GAVELGELD (Sax. gavel, rent, geld, payment). That which yields annual profit or toll. The tribute or toll itself.

3 Mon. Angl. 155; Cowell; Du Cange, Oavelgida.