apportionment

[Eng. apportion; -ment.] Ord. Lang. & Law : The act of meting out anything, the rent of a house, for instance, in just proportions among several owners. The distributing anything among several persons according to their just claims; also, the state of being so meted out. "It is even po ible to conceive that in this original apportionment, compensation might be made for the injuries of nature."- nature."-J. &. Mill: Polit. Econ ., vol. i., bk. ii., chap. 1, §2.