| 单词 | gavel-act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgavel-act gavel-act n. (also gavel-law) a statute of Ireland (2 Anne) enforcing the principle of (English) gavelkind on Irish Catholics. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > inheritance or property Salic law1548 agrarian1656 Falcidian law1656 deathbed1681 gavel-act1803 a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 431 The first operation of those acts..was..to take away the right of primogeniture; and..to substitute and establish a new species of statute gavelkind.] 1803 C. Butler Let. to Rom. Catholic Gentleman Ireland 13 Your estates were subject to odious gavel laws. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 536 The gavel act; which enacted that the lands of persons of that persuasion [Catholics] should descend to all the males, according to the custom of gavelkind. 1882 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. IV. 476 A repeal of the Gavel act, which breaks up the landed property of Catholics by an equal distribution among the children. < as lemmas |
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