Is Severalty a Word?

noun, plural sev·er·al·ties. the state of being separate. Law.

What does in Severalty mean?

2a : a sole, separate, and exclusive possession, dominion, or ownership : one's own right without a joint interest in any other person tenants in severalty. b : the quality or state of being individual or particular. 3a : land owned in severalty.

What does allotment in Severalty mean?

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the US government carried out the policy of allotment in severalty, which called for breaking up reservation lands into individual family holdings, both Indian and black tribal members were entitled to an allotment.