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Gavelet

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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.