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Severalty
Severalty meaning
The sole ownership of property by someone. | The quality of being several or separate.
Synonyms of Severalty
Example sentences (2)
History of IRA Background At the time the Act passed, it was United States policy to eliminate Indian reservations, dividing the communal territory and allotting 160-acre plots to individual heads of households, to be owned in severalty.
In referring to "men in severalty", Bell is referring to corporate kin groups such as lineages which, in having paid brideprice, retain a right in a woman's offspring even if her husband (a lineage member) deceases ( Levirate marriage ).