Gavelkind
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
gavelkynd, gavelkende.
In English law
A kind of socage tenure peculiar to the county of Kent, where lands descend to all the sons equally, or to heirs of the nearest degree, and where the lands do not escheat for felony, may be devised, and may be aliened by the heir when he comes to the age of fifteen, and where there is dower and curtesy in half the land.