severalty
the state of being separate.
Law.
(of an estate, especially land) the condition of being held or owned by separate and individual right.
an estate held or owned by individual right.
Origin of severalty
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How to use severalty in a sentence
The group is made up of individuals, and the group's life is the life of individuals carried on in at least ostensible severalty.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein VeblenThe land is not held in severalty, as in America, but by communities.
The Old World and Its Ways | William Jennings BryanHow it came about that these men, besides holding land in severalty, held a tract in common, we are left to guess.
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William MaitlandTo Gaul and to Britain they seem to have brought with them the idea that the cultivable land should be allotted in severalty.
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William MaitlandLastly, as a general rule men do not possess pasture land in severalty; they turn out their beasts on the common of the vill.
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William Maitland
British Dictionary definitions for severalty
/ (ˈsɛvrəltɪ) /
the state of being several or separate
(usually preceded by in) property law the tenure of property, esp land, in a person's own right and not jointly with another or others
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