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severalty

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English

Etymology

From several + -ty.

Noun

severalty (countable and uncountable, plural severalties)

  1. (law) The sole ownership of property by someone.
  2. The quality of being several or separate.
    • 1846, George Spence, The Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, page 545:
      [] thus a joint submission to arbitrament may be taken severally in respect of the severalty of the causes.

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