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severalty

/sev-er-uhl-tee, sev-ruhl-/US // ˈsɛv ər əl ti, ˈsɛv rəl- //UK // (ˈsɛvrəltɪ) //

数额,数位,数额度,几何

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sev·er·al·ties.

    • : the state of being separate.
    • : Law. the condition of being held or owned by separate and individual right.an estate held or owned by individual right.

Examples

  • The group is made up of individuals, and the group's life is the life of individuals carried on in at least ostensible severalty.

  • The land is not held in severalty, as in America, but by communities.

  • How it came about that these men, besides holding land in severalty, held a tract in common, we are left to guess.

  • To Gaul and to Britain they seem to have brought with them the idea that the cultivable land should be allotted in severalty.

  • Lastly, as a general rule men do not possess pasture land in severalty; they turn out their beasts on the common of the vill.