gavelet
(legal, UK, obsolete, or, historical) A certain kind of writ historically used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
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(legal, UK, obsolete, or, historical) A certain kind of writ historically used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
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(UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
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(UK, legal, historical) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
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(legal, UK, historical) A letting or renting, especially a licence to enclose land in a forest with a low hedge and ditch, under a yearly rent.
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(UK, legal, transitive) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant.
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(India, historical) The feudal tenure of a ghatwal.