Gavelkind
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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GAVELKIND gav lkind M.E.,=family tenure, custom of inheritance of lands held in socage tenure , whereby all the sons of a holder of an estate...the lands in England were held in gavelkind tenure prior to the Norman Conquest in 1066, and...