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Disgavel

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In English law

To deprive lands of that pnncipal quality of gavelkind tenure by which they descend equally among all the sons of the tenant.

2 Wooddes. Lect, 76. 2 Bl. Com, 85. Bohinson on Gavelkind, 97, note. 6 Mann. ik Or, 282.

See Gavelkind,