| Only in Kent and in Wales did the custom of gavelkind produce the partible inheritance which reduced many noble families to penury on the continent. |
| The tenure of gavelkind prevails principally in the County of Kent. |
| Their tenures were the gavelkind once prevalent over most of the world. |
| Ordinarily in gavelkind, property was kept in male hands, descending from father to son. |
| The Irish gavelkind, it will be seen, is quite different from the gavelkind customary in the county of Kent. |
| In the Saxon times, land was divided equally among all the male children of the deceased, according to the custom of gavelkind. |
