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partible, a.|ˈpɑːtɪb(ə)l|
[ad. post-cl. L. partibilis, f. partīrī to part, divide: see -ble.]
Capable of being parted or separated; capable of being divided or distributed among a number; subject to partition; divisible; separable.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 29 Landes..by a custom..partible betwen and amongest heyres males. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 293 That their land should be partible, as in Gauelkind. 1626Bacon Sylva §502 It were best to make the Moulds partible, glued, or cemented together, that you may open them when you take out the Fruit. 1767T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. (1768) II. 66 The principal point in view was to make real estates partible among the children of an intestate. 1863W. Beamont tr. Domesday Bk., Cheshire 13 For more than a century after this Survey,..a father's land was partible among all his children.
b. That involves partition of inheritance.
1653–4Whitelocke Jrnl. Swed. Emb. (1772) I. 218 The like partible law takes place generally in Germany, Denmarke, and other..countryes, both for goods and lands. 1835Reeve De Tocqueville's Democr. I. iii. 55 The law of partible inheritance. |