| Notwithstanding the above decision, it is probable that a description of tanistry and gavelkind does not exhaust the subject. |
| Ordinarily in gavelkind, property was kept in male hands, descending from father to son. |
| This is, in other words, a history of the gavelkind, and other remarkable customs of the County of Kent. |
| In particular, it appeared to the Crown that they were relying on the customs of tanistry and gavelkind. |
| 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. |
