Hypertext Webster Gateway: "severalty"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Severalty \Sev"er*al*ty\, n.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
severalty
n : the state of being several and distinct [syn: {discreteness},
{distinctness}, {separateness}]
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