GAVEL

In English law. Custom; tribute ; toll; yearly rent; payment of revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-gavch gavel-fodder, etc. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 142a. Gavelbred. Rent reserved in bread, corn, or provision; rent payable in kind. Cowell. Gaveloester. A certain measure of rentale. Cowell. Gavelgeld. That which yields annual profit or toll. The tribute or toll itself. Cowell; Du Cange. Gavelberte. A service of plowing performed by a customary tenant Cowell; Du Cange. Gareling men. Tenants who paid a reserved rent, besides some customary duties to be done by them. Cowell. Gavel-man. A tenant liable to the payment of gavel or tribute. Somn. Gavelkind, 23. Gavelmed. A customary service of mowing meadow-land or cutting grass, (consuetudo faicandi.) Blount. Gavelrep. Bed reap or bid-reap; the duty of reaping at the bid or command of the lord. Somn. Gavelkind, 19, 21; Cowell. Gavelwerk. A customary service, either manuopera, by the person of the tenant, or corropera, by his carts or carriages. Blount; Somn. Gavelkind, 24; Du Cange.