单词 | owelty |
释义 | oweltyn. Law. Equality. In later use: spec. equality as established by a sum of money, etc., given in compensation after a division of property into parts of unequal value; the establishment of equality in this way; the difference in price between two such pieces of property. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] comparison1340 evennessa1398 evenhead?a1400 equipollencec1430 pareil?c1450 equalityc1460 comparation1483 egalness1526 equalness1530 equivalency1535 eveningc1540 equivalencea1542 indifferency1569 owelty1579 coequality1583 mateship1593 equal1596 adequation1605 parity1609 parility1610 matchableness1611 equipollency1623 equiparance1624 egality1628 equipage1633 comparitya1635 omniparity1635 peership1641 exequation1656 equipoise1658 equipotency1658 countervalue1660 adequateness1664 commensurablenessa1676 peerage1681 égalité1794 peerdom1891 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) Oweltie, is when there is Lord, mesne, and tenant, and the tenant holdeth of the mesne by the same seruices, that the mesne holdeth ouer of ye lord aboue him. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Zz44 Owelty of seruices, is an equality when the tenent parauaile oweth as much to the mesn, as the mesn doth to the Lord paramont. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 16 There shall bee ten shillings onely reserved upon the gift entaile as for ovelty. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 524 Called a rent for owelty or equality of partition. 1917 C. P. Keith Chrons. Pennsylvania II. xxiii. 740 The elder branch of the Founder's posterity..wrested from the sons of the second wife some compensation, or owelty, for the inequality in the Founder's will. 1919 In re Hailes & Hutchinson's Contract H2329 (Chancery Division) (1920) (Lexis) 3 Dec. There was enough personalty to provide for Bertha's extra 30l. on division without resorting to a sale of the house or making provisions for owelty on partition thereof. 1991 Texas Lawyer (Nexis) 4 Nov. 10 A trial court may divide the property into shares of unequal value and impose a lien for the difference on the share of greater value in favor of the party receiving the share of lesser value; this difference is called ‘owelty’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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