Lexic.us

Definition of Severally

1. Adverb. Apart from others. "The clothes were hung severally"

2. Adverb. Apart from others. "The fine points are treated singly"

3. Adverb. In the order given. "The brothers were called Felix and Max, respectively"

Definition of Severally

1. adv. Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.

Definition of Severally

1. Adverb. separately ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Severally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Severally

severable severable contract several several(a) several(p) several states severalfold severalise severalities severality

severalize severalized severalizes severalizing severall severally (current term) severals severalties severalty severance

severance agreement severance pay severance payment severance tax severances severaunce severe severe acute respiratory syndrome severe combined immunodeficiency disease

Literary usage of Severally

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Any person or association of persons severally qualified, as above provided, who have opened and improved, or shall hereafter open and improve, ..."

2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"If a number of persons are bound jointly and severally, the obligee must either sue them all ... When obligees are entitled jointly and when severally. ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... with remainder to their issue severally and respectively in tail general, with cross-remainders over, there being two daughters, cross-remainders ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Edward Christian (1807)
"... estates of any quantity or length of duration, and whether they be in actual possession or expectancy, may be held in four different ways ; in severally ..."

5. The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 by Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders, Jonathan Willis Martin, Hampton Lawrence Carson, Pennsylvania Commission for the compilation of the laws prior to 1800 (1899)
"... upon four of them severally one hundred and eighty-seven pounds ten shillings, upon four others of them severally ninety- three pounds fifteen shillings ..."

6. A General Digest of the Law of Corporations: Presenting the American by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1869)
"If the charter makes directors of a corporation individually liable, jointly and severally, for the corporate debts, though it also gives an action against ..."

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