Definition of "severalty" []

• The quality or condition of being separate and distinct. (noun)
• Law A separate and individual right to possession or ownership that is not shared with any other person. (noun)
• Law Land, property, or an estate owned in severalty. (noun)
• Law The quality or condition of being held or owned in severalty. (noun)

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• "The Pi-Utes, heretofore entitled to live on the Malheur Reservation, their primeval home, are to have lands allotted to them in severalty, at the rate of one hundred and sixty acres to each head of a family, and each adult male."
• "This right was not parcelled out to us in severalty, that is to say, to each the exclusive navigation of so much of the river as was adjacent to our several shores -- in which way it would have been useless to all -- but it was placed on that footing on which alone it could be worth anything, to wit: as a right to all to navigate the whole length of the river in common."
• "Cherokee property was held in severalty, or by the tribe."