Sentences with gavelkind
gav·el·kind
G g - The Irish gavelkind, it will be seen, is quite different from the gavelkind customary in the county of Kent.
- Undeniably, however, subdivision of holdings took place on a large scale and continued to do so notwithstanding the formal abolition of gavelkind following the union with England.
- Only in Kent and in Wales did the custom of gavelkind produce the partible inheritance which reduced many noble families to penury on the continent.
- The redistribution by gavelkind on each occasion extended to the clan or sept - not beyond.