Skip to content

Partition - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

VerbarRepartimiento

A partition or distribution especially of slaves also an assessment of taxes

Cloisonneacute

Inlaid between partitions said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind

Biseptate

With two partitions or septa

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Coparceners or parceners

act of parties. This estate might be dissolved in any of the following modes:-- (1) By deed of partition, as (a) Where coparceners agreed to divide the estate in to equal parts in severalty, each to have

Joint-tenancy

and destruction of this estate may be effected in several ways, as-- (1) By a voluntary deed of partition among the tenants agreeing to hold the property in severalty, for this is a disunion of their possession,

Family unit

included in the 'family unit' and by reason of S. 4, his land, whether self-acquired or obtained on partition, would be liable to be clubbed with the lands held by the other members of the 'family unit'.

Tenancy in Common

them. This estate is subject to curtesy and dower. It is dissolvable-- (1) By a voluntary deed of partition; (2) By the union of all the titles and interests in one tenant by grant, devise, surrender, or

Apportionment

e.g., upon the devolution on intestacy of freeholds, and leaseholds which were comprised in one lease, or upon partition, or upon eviction from part of the land by title paramount, or where part of the demised premises

parcenary

parcenary pl: -nar·ies [Anglo-French parcenarie, from Old French parÇonerie, from parÇon portion, from Latin partition- partitio partition] : coparcenary

owelty

: a lien created or a pecuniary sum paid by order of the court to effect an equitable partition of property (as in divorce) when such a partition in kind would be impossible, impracticable, or prejudicial to

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial