Gavelet
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
gavelate.
In English law. A rent; a process for the recovery of rent in gavel-kind tenure. (xavelgeld, ^avelgild, sax.
In old English law. That which yields a rent or annual profit; that which pays a tribute or toll; the tribute or toll itself.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Anancient and special kind of cessavit, used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of gavelet is 10 Edw. Il. 2 Reeve, Eng, Law, c. 12, p. 298.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Rent. A process for the recovery tenures; a kind of cessavit.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
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.