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Sever

especially by violence as by cutting rending etc as to sever the head from the body

several obligation see obligation

sever sev·ered sev·er·ing 1 : to end (a joint tenancy) by

joint and several liability see liability

There is also another distinction, namely, that between entire and severable contracts. An entire contract is one the consideration of which

clause (as in a contract) which states that provisions are severable ;esp : a clause in a statute that makes the

of others. The word substitution necessarily or always connotes two severable steps, that is to say, one of repeal and another

statute offends against a constitutional limitation, but that provision is severable from the rest of the Statute, only that offending provision

Capable of being severed

promises) : constituting an undivided unit [an contract] compare divisible, severable