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severance

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Severance \Sev"er*ance\, n. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. --Milman. (Law) The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate ...

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A severance is the act of severing a piece of land from a larger tract of land. The severed parcel of land becomes a separate lot . In many jurisdictions , land use laws require that severances of land occur in an orderly fashion by way of plans of subdivision ...

Usage examples of severance.

Give me the severance payoff, go land a twenty-five-year-old with all her parts working as advertised, and even now start a family.

But though the experiments which I have made on the decomposition of vapors by light might be numbered by the thousand, I have, to my regret, encountered no fact which prove that free aqueous vapor is decomposed by the solar rays, or that the sun is reheated by the combination of gases, in the severance of which it had previously sacrificed its heat.

The rough and undulating rent which marked the severance of the building was now thickly covered with ivy, which in its gamesome luxuriance had contrived also to climb up a remaining stack of tall chimneys, and to spread over the covering of the large oriel window.

But we know The Austrian knot began their severance, And that the Polish question largens it.

Some, too, have told at whiles that rightfully Its warefulness, Its care, this planet lost When in her early growth and crudity By bad mad acts of severance men contrived, Working such nescience by their own device.

An anesthetist unceremoniously pried open the snooded jaw and sprayed cocaine down the windpipe, while an IV team deftly slipped catheters into the carotid arteries to oxygenate the brain directly after severance.

Brulet, Van Esh, Farmer, Ponteau, Regnault, and Rosenberg cite instances of reunion of a digit after amputation or severance.

Lots of big-name lawyers would be be eager to offer counsel, especially after ogling that humongous severance package.

Harry centred his attention upon the students and the grisettes, as being the newest element that the show could furnish him after his long severance from Quartier Latin ways.

And in the last mail, an unexpected three month severance pay arrived with a polite note from Tess Struan thanking him for his services.

As a Reserve officer, Coleman had always tried harder than regular officers of the same rank, but the positive knowledge that he could be booted out of the service any day, without a reason, unlike RA officers, and without getting a dime in severance pay, either, had affected his decision-making ability.

But we know The Austrian knot began their severance, And that the Polish question largens it.

The nameless temple therefore provides you with fifteen shekels for your severance.

This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.

He went to study in Paris with the determination that when he provincial home again he would settle in some provincial town as a general practitioner, and resist the irrational severance between medical and surgical knowledge in the interest of his own scientific pursuits, as well as of the general advance: he would keep away from the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value of his work.