| It touches the question of dimidiation or impalement in the coat of mine uncle, Sir John Leighton of Shropshire, who took unto wife the widow of Sir Henry Oglander of Nunwell. |
| In Germany, dimidiation is still a common method of marshalling, where one or both of two coats of arms in a combination will be halved, as in the arms of Loschau. |
| The methods of marshalling are dimidiation, impalement, quartering, superimposition. |
| But impalement as we now know it was preceded by dimidiation. |
