Apportionment

a division of a whole into (usually unequal) proportioned to the rights more claimants than one. It is either (1) apin respect of time, or (2) apportion in respect of estate. When the interest of a for life, or other person having a determine state, ceases, his succe or cannot as the next of income claim the whole as from the payment, but an apportionment between the of the deceased tenant for life the person succeeding in remainder is And now the Apportionment Act, provides that all rents, annuities, dividends, other periodical payments in the nature income shall, like interest on money lent, be as accruing from day to day, and shall apportionable in respect of time accordingly. to apportionment in respect of estate, it is that where the reversion upon a lease is and the rent is legally apportioned, the of each part of the reversion shall in of the apportioned rent allotted to him be to the benefit of all conditions of re-entry one year's rent, and the Conveyancing Act, 1881, this principle to conditions generally.