Gavel Kind in Europe
Definition of Gavel Kind
A variety of customary land tenure in Kent. Its principal incidents were (a) the land descended on intestacy to all the sons of the tenant equally ; (b) the right of the widow or widower of a deceased tenant to have half the land for dower or curtesy until a second marriage, the widower taking by the curtesy whether issue had been born of the marriage or not; (c) the right of an infant tenant to alien his land by feoffment at the age of fifteen years ; (d) non-liability to forfeiture on conviction for murder. Gavelkind was abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1922
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