severalty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of being several and distinct
    discreteness; separateness; distinctness.
  2. noun exclusive individual ownership

WordNet


Sev"er*al*ty noun
Definitions
  1. 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.
    Blackstone.

Webster 1913