Meanings of severalty in English

Religion advocates not the virtues in their severalty, but the whole moral enterprise.

You can talk about the government and land in severalty.

Lands should be allotted to the Indians in severalty, inalienable for a certain period.

To-day, by reason of the Dawes Bill, land is open to the Indians in severalty.

The colony now began to prosper; men held their lands in severalty, and taxes were low.

They had discussed them too much in severalty.

It seems to me, however, that allotments of land in severalty ought to be made with great care and circumspection.

Land held in severalty was found more profitable than land held in common, large estates than small holdings, and wool-growing than corn-growing.

I believe, too, that the relinquishment of tribal relations and the holding of land in severalty may in favorable conditions aid this consummation.

In all these five reservations, lands have been secured in severalty to the Indians, and largely through his persistent devotion to their welfare.

The group is made up of individuals, and the group's life is the life of individuals carried on in at least ostensible severalty.

Under the new regime land was held in severalty, and the spur of individual interest began at once to improve the condition of the settlement.

SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership.

The passage of the Dawes Land in Severalty Bill was, indeed, a great day for the Indian.

Religion advocates not the virtues in their severalty, but the whole moral enterprise.

You can talk about the government and land in severalty.