Excerpt from The Common Law of Kent, or the Customs of Gavelkind: With the Decisions Concerning Borough-English The Editor trusts the present edition will be found acceptable to the Profession. The work heretofore contained much matter which the various alterations in the law have rendered of no practical utility; this portion has been accordingly cancelled, which has considerably reduced the size of the work. The Editor's additions to the text are inserted within brackets, and his notes are distinguished by being alphabetically numbered. He has added at the end of the work, a selection of precedents of feoffments by infant heirs in gavelkind, and an extract from the Third Real Property Report made in 1832, proposing the total abolition of the custom of gavelkind in Kent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.