Meaning & use
severalty
The state of owning property individually and separately, rather than jointly with others.
See it in a sentence
The land was held in severalty by each farmer, rather than shared by the whole village.
The treaty divided tribal land into severalty, granting individual plots to each family.
A note on using this word
Severalty is a legal property term, most familiar from the historical phrase in severalty used in land law.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
joint tenancy
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