10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAVELKIND»
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gavelkind in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Robinson on
Gavelkind : the Common Law of Kent, Or the ...
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law.
Charles Isaac Elton, 2010
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A New Law-dictionary: Containing the Interpretation and ...
Verstegan calls it Gavelkind, quasi Give all kind, that is to each Child his Part:
And Taylor in his History of Gavelkind, derives it, from the British Gavel, i. e. a
Hold or Tenure, and Cenned, Generatio aut familia ; and so Gavel cenedh might (
jgnify ...
Giles Jacob, Sir John Holt, 2004
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Law-dictionary Explaining the Rise, Progress and Present ...
Wherefore by a charter of King John, Hubert Arch-bishop of Canterbury was
authorised to exchange the Gavelkind tenures holden of the See of Canter- bun/
into tenures by Knight's service: and by the above mentioned statute of 31 Hen. 8.
c.
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1820
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The Law Dictionary: Defining and Interpreting the Terms of ...
GAVELKIND. nexed and belonging to landt in Kent, whereby the lands of the
father are equally divided at his death among all his sons ; or the land of the
brother among all the brethren, if he have no issue of his own Lit. 210. See title
Tenures.
Thomas-Edlyne Tomlins, 1810
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The Law-dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress, and ...
1 1—13. the head of Socage, are denominated and usually treated as particular
species of Tenure, viz, Burgage and Gavelkind. 11. Burgage-T.'nure, so called to
denote the particular service or Tenure oi houses in antient cities or boroughs, ...
Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1811
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Consuetudines Kanciae : a History of
Gavelkind, and Other ...
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law.
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A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued ...
On the question, whether lands in Kent, formerly belonging to one of the
dissolved monasteries, are the subject of gavelkind? the court said, with respect
to any land which may belong to the rectors, it will fall under a different
consideration from ...
Charles Erdman Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond, 1831
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The Common Law of Kent: Or, the Customs of
Gavelkind
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A History of
Gavelkind: And Other Remarkable Customs in the ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
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The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and ...
He accomplished this division by adopting gavelkind. Unlike primogeniture,
under which land passed to the eldest son, gavelkind allowed the land to
descend to all sons equally and had been the custom in the county of Kent since
perhaps ...
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I play Crusader Kings 2 a lot, a dynasty-building game that taught me what “agnatic cognatic gavelkind” means, and in that game it's generally ... «Boing Boing, Mar 15»
Warren Buffett's Will Would Be Illegal In Most Of Europe
Catholics had to use gavelkind, where all sons (legal and illegitimate) inherited equally. It's an excellent way of breaking up political power if ... «Forbes, Apr 14»
The real Game of Thrones game - Reader's Feature
Unless you are familiar with arcane terms like Vassal Levies or the difference between Gavelkind and Seniority succession law it will take you a ... «Metro, Mar 14»
County property guide: Kent, the garden of England
... primogeniture, allowing the eldest son to inherit a whole estate, Kent operated a system of gavelkind which meant that estates were split up. «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 13»
Crusader Kings 2 Guide Pt. 5: Long Term Planning
We're still under Gavelkind succession, so multiple children would mean these duchies would be lost. Even if we weren't, more duchies under ... «Gameranx, Jun 13»
The Global Land Grab: The New Enclosures
Now rulings in the English courts on Gavelkind (1605) and Tanistry (1607) finally deny that customary law delivers property rights. Family ... «CounterCurrents.org, May 13»
Crusader Kings 2: The Old Gods in-depth Q&A
However, you will likely get Crusades coming your way, and being stuck with Gavelkind and the [higher than normal] short reign opinion ... «PC Gamer Magazine, May 13»
Why England looks like England
... having just read this book, of how the land alters as chalk soil gives way to Wealden, Sussex inheritance laws to Kentish gavelkind. It can't be ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 12»
Interview: Alexander Armstrong on bringing variety back to Saturday …
Following pleasantries, he launches into an explanation of gavelkind inheritance, in order to explain the motivation behind Border reivers' ... «Scotsman, Aug 11»
Welsh identity unites and divides
Unlike other national groups, the Welsh failed to unify, partly because of the effects of gavelkind – equal division of property among sons ... «WalesOnline, May 10»
