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Definition of Severs
1. sever [v] - See also: sever
Lexicographical Neighbors of Severs
Literary usage of Severs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"Sarah severs declined to renew the lease. Thomas severs died in 1840, having made
his will, and thereby appointed Joseph severs his executor, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery: By the Vice by John Jackson Smale, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Walter de Longueville Giffard, John Stuart (1855)
"MARY severs, by her will, dated the 4th of June, 1819, gave to her daughters,
Elizabeth severs and Sarah severs, the sum of 5001. stock in the five per ..."
3. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"Yet if a lessee for years makes a lease for a less c°- Lit-192- term, that severs
the jointure, and the term does not survive. ^ 26. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"140), and among the slain were the king of Bohemia, the Duke of Lorraine, the
Counts of Alencon, Harcourt, Flanders, Blois, Aumale, and severs, ..."
5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1826)
"... HI . other be^ng open , te be relieved by the river o which there severs Leinster
... severs ..."