Their sullungs of 240 acres occur also in the Manors of Essex belonging to St. Paul's, and the custom of gavelkind and succession of the youngest child mark it off as exceptional.
The Custumal published among the Statutes speaks of the personal freedom of all Kentish-men, although it has to concern itself specially with the gavelkind tenantry.
The gavelkind or tributary tenure there was subjected to equal partition among the heirs.
So that this custom differed from Kentish gavelkind in four points.
Notwithstanding the above decision, it is probable that a description of tanistry and gavelkind does not exhaust the subject.
Also by this Irish custom of gavelkind bastards took their shares with the legitimate, and wives, on the other hand, were quite excluded from dower, and daughters took nothing, even if their father died without issue male.
It is to this remarkable peculiarity thatgavelkind no doubt owes its local popularity.
Gavelkind is one of the most interesting examples of the customary law of England; it was, previous to the Conquest, the general custom of the realm, but was then superseded by the feudal law of primogeniture.
The principal peculiarities which distinguish socage lands subject to the custom of gavelkind from free or common socage are--1.
It may be that gavelkind is the older, and that Borough English is a remnant or distortion of what appears, on the face of it, a more equitable condition of things.
Gavelkind and Borough English, being customs already acknowledged by the law, need not be specially pleaded; it is sufficient to show that the lands are affected and regulated by the same; but all other private customs must be pleaded.
The tenure of Gavelkind prevails principally in the County of Kent.
Under the law of Gavelkind as it existed in Great Britain, daughters never inherited, although the rights of even an illegitimate son was recognized as equal to those of legitimate sons.
There was a custom of privilege annexed to all lands of this kind in Kent, among them, that the wife should be endowed with a moiety; gavelkind land was devisable by will.
Lord Coke looked upon the practice of gavelkind among the Irish as a mark of their descent from the ancient Britons.
The very name gavelkind is said to bear this signification, the word Kynd is dutch signifying a male child, thus gife eal cyn, means give all to the son.
M111 Close analogy in the custom of Gavelkind in Kent.
M111) It is interesting to find analogous provisions in the customs of Gavelkind of ancient Kent.
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