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gavelkind
Given to all the kindred, or the hold or tenure of a family, not the kind of tenure.
English law
A tenure or custom annexed or belonging to land in Kent, by which the lands of the father are equally divided among all his sons, or the land of the brother among all his brothers, if he have no issue of his own.Source : Bouvier 1856
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