DISTRIBUTIVE

Exercising or accomplishing distribution; apportioning, dividing, and a igning in separate items or shares. -Distributive:finding of the i ue. Th~ jury are bound to give their verdict for that f party who, upon the evidence, appears to them to have succeeded in establishing his sid•e of the i ue. But there are cases in which an i ue ma:y be found distributively, i. e., in part for plamtiff, and in part for defendant. Thus, in an action for goods sold and work done, if the defendant pleaded that he never was indebted, G on which i ue was joined, a verdict might be found for the plaintiff as to the goods, and fur the defendant as to the work. Steph. PI. (7th Ed.) 77d.-Distributive justice. See JusTICE.-Distributive share, The share or portion which a given heir receives on the legal distrib~tion of an intestate estate, Peopl_e v. H Beckw.1th, 10 N. Y. St. Rep. 97; Page v. Rives, 18 Fed. Oas. 992. Sometimes, b:y an extena sion of meaning, the share or port10n a igned to a given person on the distribution of any estate or fund, as. under an a ignment for creditors or under insolvency proceedings. [s. 387]