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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.