noun.
A separate and individual right to possession or ownership that is not shared with any other person.
noun.
Land, property, or an estate owned in severalty.
noun.
The quality or condition of being held or owned in severalty.
noun.
The quality or condition of being separate and distinct.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others: used chiefly of the tenure of property.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
noun.
an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common.
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noun.
the state of being several and distinct
noun.
exclusive individual ownership
Word Usage
"The Pi-Utes, heretofore entitled to live on the Malheur Reservation, their primeval home, are to have lands allotted to them in severalty, at the rate of one hundred and sixty acres to each head of a family, and each adult male."