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Webster 1913 Edition

Disgavel

Dis-gav′el

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disgaveled
or
Disgaveled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Disgaveling
.]
[See
Gavelkind
.]
(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.
Burrill.

Webster 1828 Edition

Disgavel

DISGAVEL

,
Verb.
T.
[See Gavelkind.] To take away the tenure of gavelkind.

Definition 2024

disgavel

disgavel

English

Verb

disgavel ‎(third-person singular simple present disgavels, present participle disgavelling, simple past and past participle disgavelled)

  1. (Britain, law, transitive) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant.
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Etymology

See dis- and gavelkind.

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