severalty

Examples

• All

• He wanted his family of six, including his wife, Mary Sockabasin, to hold their portion of the common property "in severalty." Sockabasin wanted to make it possible for any Penobscot who wished to own their own lot, but he specifically asked not to divide the tribal buildings and the river fisheries, where "no partition can well be made."

  Academic text (2018)

• The key to this involved moving the Indians from possession of their lands in common to possession in severalty.

  Academic text (2004)

• The linchpin for this policy was the Dawes Severalty Act, which was also known as the General Allotment Act of 1887.

  Academic text (1997)

• Those who recognized the value of these ideas included Senator Henry L. Dawes, author of the 1887 Dawes Severalty Act, which incorporated land allotment.

  Academic text (1990)

• Hampton's magazine, the Southern Workman, described the passage of the Dawes Act as a "great event in Indian progress" that "gave to the Indian the right to land in severalty and to American citizenship."

  Academic text (2002)

• Furthermore, she believed that treaties which hindered their civilization process should be either altered or abrogated and that Indians should hold their lands in severalty.

  Academic text (1990)

• It is a blessed thing that the Indian does not know what is coming to him when he accepts land in severalty and thus becomes a citizen of the United States; otherwise, he would hold on with more tenacity to his old way of life until the doctrine of extermination put him out of his misery.

  Academic text (2002)

• In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act, which exempted the Five Tribes, but the Curtis Act of 1898 applied its terms to the Cherokee Nation and the other four southern tribes.

  Academic text (2010)

• The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was designed to allot each head of an Indian household 160 acres, individuals over eighteen years of age 80 acres, and those under eighteen, who were mostly orphans, 40 acres.

  Academic text (2005)

• The government encouraged Native Americans to own their land in severalty to promote independent farming.

Synonyms

P

possession

vsseveralty

230 2.0

The state of having or controlling something, especially property

is specifically about property held by one person alone rather than shared

O

ownership

vsseveralty

187 2.5

The legal right to have and control something like a house

is limited to property held by one person alone rather than shared

P

possessorship

vsseveralty

• Specialized

8.3

The state of owning things like land or buildings

is restricted to being held by one person alone rather than shared

Antonyms

S

share

667 1.6

A part of money, food or property given to someone

J

joint

571 3.5

Shared by two or more groups

How Exclusive

absolute

388 4.1

severalty

• Specialized

9.9

sharing

99 1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology