Word: gavelkind
Translations: gavelkind
gavelkind in german
Dictionary:
german
Translations:
Realteilung
gavelkind in polish
Dictionary:
polish
Translations:
tenuta
The meaning and "use of": gavelkind
noun
- a system of inheritance in which a deceased person's land is divided equally among all male heirs. - 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.