severalty

1. The quality or condition of being separate and distinct.
2. Law.
   1. A separate and individual right to possession or ownership that is not shared with any other person.
   2. Land, property, or an estate owned in severalty.
   3. The quality or condition of being held or owned in severalty.

Ownership of real property by an individual as an individual. See also Tenancy in Common; Tenancy in Severalty.

The ownership of Real Property by an individual as an individual. See Tenancy in Severalty.
Example: The owner in severalty enjoys working the land without partners in its ownership.

Refers to the holding of property solely, separately, and individually. A tenant in severalty holds the land exclusively and solely for the duration of his or her estate without any other person holding joint rights. 2 Bl. Comm. *179.

n.

Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership. Certain tribes of Indians are believed now to be sufficiently civilized to have in severalty the lands that they have hitherto held as tribal organizations, and could not sell to the Whites for waxen beads and potato whiskey.

    Lo! the poor Indian whose unsuited mind
    Saw death before, hell and the grave behind;
    Whom thrifty settler ne'er besought to stay --
    His small belongings their appointed prey;
    Whom Dispossession, with alluring wile,
    Persuaded elsewhere every little while!
    His fire unquenched and his undying worm
    By "land in severalty" (charming term!)
    Are cooled and killed, respectively, at last,
    And he to his new holding anchored fast!