Category:Severance

Sev"er*ance, n.

1. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; Separation. Milman.

2. (law)

Defn: the act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more That join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or Separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction Of the unity of interest in a joint estate. Bouvier.