Definitions for severalty

severalty sev·er·al·ty

Spelling: [sev-er-uh l-tee, sev-ruh l-]
IPA: /ˈsɛv ər əl ti, ˈsɛv rəl-/

Severalty is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 550 anagrams from letters in severalty (aeelrstvy).

Definitions for severalty

noun

  1. the state of being separate.
  2. 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

First recorded in 1400-50; late Middle English word from Anglo-French word severalte. See several, -ty2

Examples for severalty

To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.

The civilized tenure of property in severalty must be substituted for communal property.

In all the treaties provision is made for finally dividing the land among the Indians in severalty.

It seems to me, however, that allotments of land in severalty ought to be made with great care and circumspection.

Land for pasture also occurs in private hands and in severalty, but such cases are much rarer.

These people were clamorous for allotments of land in severalty.

Of course, by the side of these communal meadows we frequently find others that were owned in severalty.

They are now citizens, having lands allotted in severalty (about 1889) in the north-eastern part of Indian Territory.

How it came about that these men, besides holding land in severalty, held a tract in common, we are left to guess.

The land is not held in severalty, as in America, but by communities.

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