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Definition of Partible
1. Adjective. (of e.g. property) capable of being parted or divided. "A partible estate"
Definition of Partible
1. a. Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.
Definition of Partible
1. Adjective. Divisible, able to be divided or partitioned. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to property that can be divided between heirs on inheritance, or to an inheritance system based on such division. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Partible
1. divisible [adj] - See also: divisible
Lexicographical Neighbors of Partible
Literary usage of Partible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Common Law of Kent: Or, The Customs of Gavelkind. With an Appendix by Thomas Robinson (1822)
"97,, that the lands within the fee of Pickering in Norfolk were then partible
among the males. And the same is said to be the custom of the soke of ..."
2. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1906)
"partible Inheritance. 1224. Ipswich. ... treat that the custom prevailed at
Stamford, largely of suits arising out of partible ..."
3. Year Books of Edward II by Great Britain, Frederic William Maitland, Selden Society, William Craddock Bolland, G J Turner, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, Ludwik Ehrlich (1904)
"And the reason is that they are partible of right. So it is in this case, since
we are willing to aver that they are held in socage and that all the lands ..."
4. The Hindu Law of Endowments by Prannath Saraswati (1897)
"PRIVATE PROPERTY PARTLY SUBJECT TO PIOUS USES : alienable and partible, 4.— Decisions:
a property not wholly dedicated, partible subject to the trust,— ..."
5. A Manual of Hindu Law: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Standish Grove Grady (1871)
"But though the former are not partible, the younger sons are entitled to a
maintenance, which ought to be apportioned with reference to the dignity of the ..."
6. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1904)
"... after their appearance.1 Disseisin in a partible Inheritance. 1291. Ipswich,
cap. 38.2—. ... partible ..."
7. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Thomas Day (1812)
"... they are construed to alter only the partible quality of the customary descent
to males, which agrees with lord Coke's manner of mentioning the 31 H. 8. ..."
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