gavelkind
英 ['gævlkaɪnd] 美 ['gævəlˌkaɪnd]

n.

（英国）一种土地、财产继承制度或习惯；

英英释义

Gavelkind

• Gavelkind was a system of land tenure associated chiefly with the county of Kent, but also found in Ireland and Wales and some other parts of England. Its inheritance pattern bears resemblance to Salic patrimony and as such might testify in favour of a wider, probably ancient Germanic tradition.

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Gavelkind in Ireland
Consuetudines Kanciae : a history of gavelkind and other remarkable customs in the County of Kent
[The new rural law. Public law: prohibition in gavelkind, appropriation procedure, load limit]
The Swanscombe Legend and the Historiography of Kentish Gavelkind: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman
"The oracle of his countrey"? William Somner, Gavelkind, and lexicography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: The cases of gavelkind and tanistry: legal imperialism in Ireland, 1603–1610
Customs in conflict [microform]: sir John Davies, the common law, and the abrogation of Irish gavelkind and tanistry