SEVERALTY

severalty

(noun) exclusive individual ownership

discreteness, distinctness, separateness, severalty

(noun) the state of being several and distinct

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

severalty (countable and uncountable, plural severalties)

(legal) The sole ownership of property by someone.

Anagrams

• every last

Source: Wiktionary


Sev"er*al*ty, n.

Definition: A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. Blackstone.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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