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Gavel. See GABEL.A tribute, toll, or custom paid to a superior, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 690....
Pride-gavel
Pride-gavel, a rent or tribute, Tayl. Hist. Gavelk. 112....
Sand-gavel
Sand-gavel, a payment due to the lord of the manor of Rodley, in the county of Gloucester, for liberty granted to the tenants to dig sand for their common use, Cowel....
Water-gavel
Water-gavel, a rent paid for fishing in, or other benefit received from, some river...
Rhandir
Rhandir, a part in the division of Wales before the Conquest; every township comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rhandirs, and four houses or tenements constituted every rhandir, Taylor's Hist. Gav. 69...
Gavel
A gable...
Bagavel
Bagavel. Edward I. granted to the citizens of Exeter, by charter, the collection of a certain tribute or toll upon all wares brought to that city to be sold, to be applied towards the paving of the streets, repairing the walls, and maintaining the city, which was commonly called, in Old English, bagavel, bethugavel and chipping-gavel, Antiq. Of Exeter....
Gale
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....
Gavelkind
Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths after 1925 except in regard to entailed estates, and descent from a person of unsound mind, as provided by s. 51 (ibid.), and see (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 12th Sched. (1)(d), and Re Price, 1928 Ch 579. The word is derived from the Saxon word 'gafol,' or, as it is otherwise written, 'gavel,' which signifies 'rent' or a 'customary performance of husbandry works'; accordingly the land which yielded this kind of service, in contradistinction to knight-service land, was called 'GAVELKIND' that is 'land of the kind that yields rent.' Lambarde (Perambulations of Kent, Edn. 1656, p. 585) first advanced and promulgated this supposition, which does not seem to be sufficiently comprehensive since 'gavelkind' does not necessarily denote land subject to rent, in opposition to the opinion of Lord Coke, who traced the word to 'gave all kinde' 'for the custom giv...
Land-gabel
Land-gabel, a tax or rent issuing out of land. Spelman says it was originally a penny for every house. This land-gabel, or land-gavel, in the Register of Domesday, was a quit-rent for the site of a house, or the land whereon it stood; the same as what we now call ground-rent....
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