ALLOTMENT

Partition, apportionment, division; the distribution of land unaer an lnclosure act, or shares in a public undertaking or corporation. -Allotmt:.nt note. In English law..A WTit• ing by a seaman/ whereby ·he makes an a ignment of part of his wages in favor of his wife, father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, brother or sister. Every allotment note must be in a form sanctioned by the board of trade. The allottee, that is, the person in whose favor it is made, may recover the amount in the coun• ty court. Mozley & Whitley.-Allotment system. Designates the practice of dividing land in small portions for cultivation by agricultural laborers and other cottagers at their leisure, and after they have performed their ordinary day's work. vVharton.-Allotment warden. By the English general inclosure act, 1845, I 108, when an allotment for the laboring poor of a. district has been made on an inclosure under the act, the!awl so allotted is to be under the management of the incumbent and church warden of the parish, and two other persons elected by the parish, and they are to be styled "the allotment wardens" of the parish. Sweet. [s. 67]