How To Use partible In A Sentence
- Settlers brought with them the idea of land as a partible, bounded commodity, owned by an individual (or self-selected partnership), transferable, and exclusive in perpetuity. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
- The answer probably comes from the practice of partible inheritance, there being at times more than one East Saxon king.
- Large families and the practice of partible inheritance strained lands that under the best circumstances could only sustain sparse populations.
- Partible inheritance was, for example, a distinct feature of Kentish gavelkind tenures, which were classified as free, and also survived amongst customary tenants in parts of northern and eastern England.
- All the legal systems of France stipulated one form or another of partible inheritance.
- Note 36: On marriage strategies and partible inheritance see Dooling, "The Making of a Colonial Elite," 157 – 62. back Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
- While this was a deviation for the English population (particularly the middle-class English), who had come from a legal tradition of primogeniture and impartible inheritance, it was less a departure for the Irish population, for whom communal property and partible inheritance had been long-standing customary practices. Gutenber-e Help Page
- For example, kinship practices that once favored partible inheritance may be collectively reformulated to favor primogeniture in response to shrinking land allotments and population growth.
- Their vital economic role was reflected in customary testamentary practices that adhered to a relatively gender-inclusive system of partible inheritance, contrasting with the English practice of primogeniture. Gutenber-e Help Page
- Powys withstood encroachments from England and Gwynedd throughout its existence, although the Welsh custom of partible inheritance caused rivalries among the ruling family.
