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Acquiesce

the Explanation which makes sub-s. (1) applicable to acquisition of property by inheritance or devise or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of maintenance or by gift or by a female's own skill

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

Septifragal

Breaking from the partitions said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions

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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

parcenary

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

Severance

The act of severing or the state of being severed partition separation

Marumakkattayam law

the female line with equal rights in the property of the family. Under the customary Marumakkattayam law no partition of the family estate may be made, but items of the family property may by agreement be separately

Addictio

(magistral grant of ager publicus), or it might take the form of an 'adjudicatio,' the judge deciding a partition suit.

Bar

Bar, (1) a partition running across the courts of law, behind which all outer-barristers and every member of the public must sit

Chancery

other written instruments; specific performance of contracts between vendors and purchasers of real estates, including contracts for leases; partition or sale of real estates; wardship of infants and care of their estates and many other matters assigned

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