Definition of Severalties

1. severalty [n] - See also: severalty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Severalties

several
several(a)
several(p)
several states
severalfold
severalise
severalities
severality
severalize
severalized
severalizes
severalizing
severall
severally
severals
severalties (current term)
severalty
severance
severance agreement
severance pay
severance payment
severance tax
severances
severaunce
severe
severe acute respiratory syndrome
severe combined immunodeficiency disease
severe combined immunodeficient mice
severe postanoxic encephalopathy

Literary usage of Severalties

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford by Henry Sumner Maine (1871)
"... Theories of Land-Law — The Arable Mark in England—Shifting severalties—The Common Fields—Their Great Extent—Extract from Marshall—Scott on Udal Tenures— ..."

2. Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford by Henry Sumner Maine (1871)
"Effect of shifting severalties, S7. Groat extent of the common fields, SS. And of the pasturage on baulks of turf, 89. Existing baulks, S9. ..."

3. A History of Private Bill Legislation by Frederick Clifford (1885)
"Shifting severalties. occasionally restricted by custom, in order that farmers might be able to put in a wheat crop; but, in the absence of such custom, ..."

4. Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford by Henry Sumner Maine (1872)
"The portion of the domain kept in grass was represented: (1) by 'shifting severalties' of meadow land, which were very frequent, the modes of successive ..."

5. Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford by Henry Sumner Maine (1876)
"... Teutonic Village-Community—The Arable Mark—English Theories of Land-Law—The Arable Mark in England—Shifting severalties— The Common Fields—Their Great ..."

6. The Early History of Land-holding Among the Germans by Denman Waldo Ross (1883)
"In regard to the forest land: when it was divided into severalties, limits were fixed by marks upon the trees. Then no man was allowed to cut live wood ..."

7. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1875)
"Their existence will lessen the value of the severalties of the common ... In this way, everywhere, the severalties are being so reduced as to be no longer ..."

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