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Gavelet

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A customary process, whereby the lord of lands in gavelkind might seize the land in the nature of a distress, to be returned to the tenant in case he paid the rent.

Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 203.

GAVELGELD (Saxon, gavel, rent, geld, payment). That which yields annual profit or toll; the tribute or toll itself.

3 Mon. Angl. 155; Cowell; Du Cange, "Gavelgida."