severalty

[Eng. several; -ty.] A state of severance or separation from the rest, or from all others. "Thus having considered the precedent a per tions, or overtures in severalty , according to their particular requisites."- Reliquice Wottoniance , p. 39. Estate of severalty : An estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person. It is distinguished from joint-tenancy, coparcenary, and commu. "He that holds lands and tenements in severalty , or is sole tenant thereof, is he that holds them in his own right only." -Black stone: Comment., bk. ii., ch. 12.