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How to use severalty in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word severalty? Here are some examples.

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The government of Canada received a request from myself and my family for land in severalty and tax exemption.
There exists in this country an endemic resistance to a single thing on a plate and equally an equation between quality and severalty.
The Indians interested should be given sufficient notice to enable them to select proper reserves and thus obviate the impracticable problem of severalty.
Therefore there were assurances that the government would not force upon them substantial changes in their way of life and that they would be permitted to hold their land collectively in reserves or in severalty.
The reserves are all in severalty but this is the very plan which has failed in the southern part of Treaty 8 and which an attempt is now being made to rectify.
In some cases, however, the main concern of the Indian Affairs administrators was to reduce survey expenses, and this led to a policy of discouraging Indians from choosing land in severalty.
She was promised the return of her people to the Malheur reservation and a severalty allotment of land there, but the order issued to that effect was never executed.
Examples from Classical Literature
How it came about that these men, besides holding land in severalty, held a tract in common, we are left to guess.
Of course, by the side of these communal meadows we frequently find others that were owned in severalty.
It seems to me, however, that allotments of land in severalty ought to be made with great care and circumspection.
In all the treaties provision is made for finally dividing the land among the Indians in severalty.
To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.
They are now citizens, having lands allotted in severalty in the north-eastern part of Indian Territory.
The civilized tenure of property in severalty must be substituted for communal property.
Land for pasture also occurs in private hands and in severalty, but such cases are much rarer.
The land is not held in severalty, as in America, but by communities.
These people were clamorous for allotments of land in severalty.
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