Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Eng. Law, to relieve (land) from the law of gavel-kind, and particularly from subjection to the rule of partition at the owner's death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Eng. Law) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, law, transitive To
deprive of that principal quality ofgavelkind tenure by whichlands descend equally among all the sons of thetenant .
Etymologies
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See dis- and gavelkind.
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