Gavelet

Gavelate. [L. Lat. gaveletum, gavilettum; from gavel, rent or custom, and the old word let, to cease or hinder.] In English law. A rent.

Co. Litt. 142 a.

A process for the recovery of rent.

Hargrave's Note 231, lib. 2.

A customary process, (called consuetudo de gaveleto,) for the recovery of rent or service withheld by a tenant in gavelkind, whereby the lord might seize the land in the nature of a distress, to be returned to the tenant in case he paid the rent. Termes de la ley.

Cowell.

It was a species of cessavit, originally peculiar to the tenure in gavelkind, and confined to Kent, but by the Statute of Gavelet, 10 Edw. II., was extended to the city of London.

Crabb's Hist. 203.