Legal Definition and Related Resources of Partition

A division between several persons of property which belongs to them as coowners; may be compulsory as per judicial process or voluntary . severance of the unity of possession or title or both, between coowners, enabling them to hold severally their respective shares.

The division whicli is made between several persons of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of goods and chattels, which belong to them as coheirs or coproprietors. The term is more technically applied to the division of real estate made between coparceners, tenants in common, or joint tenants. Compulsory partition is that which takes place by a judicial proceeding for that purpose, without regard to the wishes of one or more of the owners. Voluntary partition is that made by the owners by mutual consent.

verb

• allocate
• allot
• apportion
• break up
• carve
• compartmentalize
• cut up
• dissect
• distribute
• divide
• divide into distinct portions
• divide into portions
• divide into shares
• divide proportionately
• divide up
• dole out
• form into classes
• group
• mete
• mete out
• parcel out
• pigeonhole
• place in a category
• portion
• portion out
• prorate
• section
• sectionalize
• segment
• sever
• sever the unity of possession
• share
• split up
• subdivide
• Associated Concepts: partition property

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Partition in Historical Law

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Partition in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Where two or more joint-tenants, coparceners, or tenants in common, agree to divide the lands so held among them, in severalty, each taking a distributive part.2 Bl. Com. 323.

Note: This legal definition of Partition in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Partition in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of partition.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• partition in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• partition in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Concept of Partition in the context of Real Property

Alternatives definitions of Partition: (1) Any division of real or personal property between co-owners, resulting in individual ownership of the interest of each. (2) A wall, sometimes moveable, and not load-bearing, used to divide a room or building.

Concept of Partition in the context of Real Property

Alternatives definitions of Partition: (1) Any division of real or personal property between co-owners, resulting in individual ownership of the interest of each. (2) A wall, sometimes moveable, and not load-bearing, used to divide a room or building.

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