Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Gavelet
Hist. A writ used in Kent and London to recover rent from land held in gavelkind. See CESSAVIT.
Gavelherte
Hist. A service of plowing performed by a customary tenant.
Watergavel
n. Hist. A fee paid for a benefit (such as fishing) obtained from a body of water.
disgavel
ub. Hist. To convert (gavelkind land) into ordinary freehold land. See GAVELKIND.
forgavel
Hist. A small reserved rent in money; quit-rent.
gavel
1. Hist. A tribute, toll, or custom paid to a superior. 2. Hist. An annual payment of rent or revenue, esp. payment in kind, such as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, or oat-gavel. -Sometimes spelled gabel. 3. A mallet used by a presiding officer, often a judge, to bring a meeting or court to order.
gavelbred
Hist. Rent payable in bread, corn, or some other provision; rent payable in kind.
gavelgeld
Hist. 1. Property that yields a profit or a toll. 2. The tribute or toll itself.
gaveling man
Hist. See GAVELMAN.
gavelkind
Hist. 1. A species of socage tenure arising in land that has descended equally to the decedent's sons. 9 It was widespread before 1066, when it was mainly superseded by primogeniture. This propertydivision technique was then largely limited to Kent. The person holding land in this manner enjoyed several advantages not available under the common law: the land could be disposed of by will, did not escheat for felony other than treason or for want of heirs, and was alienable by an heir at age 15. Gavelkind was abolished in 1925. 2. Land that yields gavel service.
gavelman
Hist. A tenant who is liable for money rent in addition to a customary service to the lord. ( A gavelman was formerly a villein who had been released from villenage in consideration of money rent. -Also termed gaveling man.
gavelmed
Hist. A tenant's customary service of mowing the lord's meadowland or grass for hay. - Also spelled gauelmead.
gavelrep
Hist. A tenant's duty to reap the lord's fields at the lord's command; bederepe. - Also spelled gauelrip.
gavelwerk
Hist. Customary service, either by the tenant's own hands or with the aid of the tenant's carts or carriages.
land-gavel
Hist. A tax or rent issuing from land. - Also spelled landgable; land-Babel; land-gafol. See GAVEL.
metegavel
Archaic. A rent or tribute paid in supplies of food.