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Definition :

Gale [fr. gavel, Sax., a rent or duty], a periodical payment of rent, Spelm. Gloss. Voce 'gabellum.' The term is also used as meaning the right granted by the Crown to mine or to quarry in parts of the Forest of Dean. [See the Forest of Dean (Mines) Act, 1838]

Rent paid by a free miner the galled for the right to mine a plot of land; A licence to mine a plot of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 687.