3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Severalty  \Sev"er*al*ty\,  n. 
  A  state  of  separation  from  the  rest,  or  from  all  others  a 
  holding  by  individual  right 
 
  Forests  which  had  never  been  owned  in  severalty. 
  --Bancroft. 
 
  {Estate  in  severalty}  (Law),  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.  --Blackstone. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  severalty 
  n  :  the  state  of  being  several  and  distinct  [syn:  {discreteness}, 
  {distinctness},  {separateness}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  SEVERALTY,  n.  Separateness,  as  lands  in  severalty,  i.e.,  lands  held 
  individually,  not  in  joint  ownership.  Certain  tribes  of  Indians  are 
  believed  now  to  be  sufficiently  civilized  to  have  in  severalty  the 
  lands  that  they  have  hitherto  held  as  tribal  organizations,  and  could 
  not  sell  to  the  Whites  for  waxen  beads  and  potato  whiskey. 
 
  Lo!  the  poor  Indian  whose  unsuited  mind 
  Saw  death  before  hell  and  the  grave  behind; 
  Whom  thrifty  settler  ne'er  besought  to  stay  -- 
  His  small  belongings  their  appointed  prey; 
  Whom  Dispossession,  with  alluring  wile, 
  Persuaded  elsewhere  every  little  while! 
  His  fire  unquenched  and  his  undying  worm 
  By  "land  in  severalty"  (charming  term!) 
  Are  cooled  and  killed,  respectively,  at  last 
  And  he  to  his  new  holding  anchored  fast! 
 
 

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