gavelkind 的定义
English Law.
- a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- a customary system of land tenure whose chief feature was equal division of land among the heirs of the holder.
- the land so held.
更多gavelkind例句
- On the death of a freeholder his land was divided amongst his sons equally, according to what is called "the custom of gavelkind."
- Gavelkind may be derived from gabel, a fork or branch, and the word is used in Ireland as well as in Kent.
- It is taken from notes to the third edition of Robinson's valuable work on Gavelkind, p. 391.
- It is more correctly described as socage tenure, subject to the custom of gavelkind.
- The gavelkind or tributary tenure there was subjected to equal partition among the heirs.