Look up: Gavelkind

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   gavelkind
   In Britain, system of land tenure found only in Kent. The tenant paid rent to the lord instead of carrying out services for him, as elsewhere. It came into force in Anglo-Saxon times and was only...
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   gavelkind
   a tenure of land existing chiefly in kent from Anglo-Saxon times until 1925 and providing for division of an intestate`s estate equally among the sons or other heirs Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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   Gavelkind
   Gav'el·kind` noun [ Middle English gavelkynde , gavelkende . See Gavel tribute, and Kind , noun ] (O. Eng. Law) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell.
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   Gavelkind
   `Gavelkind` was a peculiar system of land tenure associated chiefly with the county of Kent, but found also in other parts of England. Its inheritance pattern bears resemblance to Salic patrimony and as such might testify in favour of a wider, probably ancient Germanic tradition. In Kent all land was presumed to be held by this tenure until the contrary is proved, but some lands have been disgavelled by particular statutes. It is more correctly ...
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   Gavelkind
   • (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.
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   gavelkind
   gavelkind (găv'ulkīnd) [M.E.,=family tenure], custom of inheritance of lands held in socage tenure, whereby all the sons of a holder of an estate in land share equally in such lands upon the death of the father. Most of the lands in England were held in gavelkind tenure prior to the ...
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