单词 | partibility |
释义 | partibilityn. The condition or quality of being partible; divisibility; spec. the condition by which land is subject to equal partition among all heirs upon inheritance. Cf. gavelkind n., primogeniture n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] > capability of divisibility1644 partibility1644 dividuity1656 dividableness1674 divisiblenessa1691 dividuality1803 dividualism1883 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xi. 97 Water when it is in a payle..hath the effect of grauity predominating in it; but if it be poured out, it hath the effect of partibility more. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. 4 The partibility of lands in other countries. 1848 Amer. Whig. Rev. Dec. 613/2 But it may be remarked that the principle of equal partibility has not had the effect in Hungary of preventing the formation of large landed estates, as was likewise the case. 1856 F. Grimké Considerations upon Nature & Tendency Free Instit. 65 Even the equal partibility of inheritances only partially corrects the evil. 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 July 10 The substitution of partibility for primogeniture in cases of intestacy of real property would work very little alteration in the first instance at all events. 1916 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 24 615 The existence of customs of runrig, the division of intermixed parcels of land among tenants, which he suggests was derived from the partibility of land among their heirs. 1951 Speculum 26 459 Exceptions were always made to the rule, and socages were divided if it could be shown that partibility was the custom of the locality or that the lands had previously been divided. 1998 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 57 725 We argue that a combination of land transfers, labor markets, and lower rates of production among poorer households made partibility viable in the long run. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1644 |
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