(legal, UK, obsolete, or, historical) A certain kind of writ historically used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
(legal, UK, obsolete, or, historical) A certain kind of writ historically used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
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(UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
(UK, legal, historical) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
(legal, UK, historical) A letting or renting, especially a licence to enclose land in a forest with a low hedge and ditch, under a yearly rent.
(UK, legal, transitive) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant.
(India, historical) The feudal tenure of a ghatwal.