Disgavel
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
To deprive lands of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which they descend equally among all the sons of the tenant.
2 Wooddeson, Lect. 76; 2 Bl. Comm. 85; Robinson, Gavelkind, 97, note.