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As they claim as joint-heirs or parceners, the land must have been subject to partibility, and therefore of socage tenure.

From Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Is not this to all intents and purposes ascribing partibility to God?

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor