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Gavelkind
Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by
Tenure
free socage tenures were petit serjeanty tenure in burgage, and gavelkind. (1) Petit serjeanty [parva serjeantia, Lat.] greatly resembles grand serjeanty,
Partition, Deed of
joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, or joint heirs in gavelkind, and they were desirous of dividing it into distinct portions,
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Heir
borough-English lands, the youngest son succeeds his father, while in gavelkind lands, all the sons inherit as parceners, and make but
Usage
a custom may in some cases (e.g., the custom of gavelkind) be judicially noticed without proof. The concept of long continuance
Terra testamentalis
Terra testamentalis, gavelkind land, being disposable by will, Spelm.
Socage, or Soccage
abolished by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, Borough-English, Gavelkind, etc. (q.v.). Socage is the same as service of the
Recto de rationabili parte
part, which lay between privies in blood, as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee simple, Fitz.
Primogeniture
'Rights of Primogeniture and Succession.' In England the customs of gavelkind and Borough-English were almost the only exceptions to this Norman
Gavelet
kent and London to recover rent from land held in gavelkind, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 690.
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