severalty
IPA: sˈɛvɝʌɫti
noun
- (law) The sole ownership of property by someone.
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Examples of "severalty" in Sentences
- Cherokee property was held in severalty, or by the tribe.
- Provision has been made for giving lands in severalty, and the next great movement should be to induce the
- The Indians were guaranteed the same rights to lands in severalty and the division of common lands as in the case of other
- In all these five reservations, lands have been secured in severalty to the Indians, and largely through his persistent devotion to their welfare.
- Gregory for Marcus on Podex by Daddy de Wyer, old baga-broth, beeves and scullogues, churls and vassals, in same, sept and severalty and one by one and sing a mamalujo.
- He failed, but held out hope to his clients and urged them under no circumstances to go back to their lands at Klamath, advising them as counsel to take up lands in severalty under the pre-emption laws of the United States.
- 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.
- Other planks of the platform related to lands in severalty, to the legal rights of the Indians, etc. -- all of which were unanimously approved, and thus once more this remarkable Conference followed its predecessors in free and frank debate, consummated by entire harmony in the result.
- The said commissioner shall, in concurrence with the proper officers of the Gay Head tribe, cause a survey of all the land held in severalty, by the members of said tribe, setting out the same to each, by betes and bounds, and, when the survey is complete, shall cause a record of the portion of each proprietor to be made in the registry of deeds, of the county of Dukes
- 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.
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