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Severalty
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SEVERALTY, title to an estate. An estate in severalty is one which is held by the tenant in his own right only, without any other being joined or connected with him in point of interest, during the continuance of his estate. 2 Bl. Com. 179. Cruise, Dig. 479, 480.



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Enclosures involved the transformation of lands over which common rights once existed--open fields, commons, and wastes--into property held in severalty.
 
 
 
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