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Estate in severalty

Severalty \Sev"er*al*ty\, n. 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.

Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common.
--Blackstone.