1
able to be separated, taken away from each other:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
Si les jurours en petites assises [...] seient de divers assenz, pur ceo ne sont il mie manasable ne enprisonable, einz sunt tretables et severables e examinables
148
♦
livestock
mammals
(of young animal) able to be weaned, separated from the mother:
(
c.1334;
MS: s.xivm
)
primes nurri severables bestes selonc l'age et nature q'il avoient diverse
5.6
2
law
separate, individual, distinct:
(
1483-84
)
in
[
sic] le declaracioun fueront divers choses severabilis
ii 56.15
♦
law
several, belonging fully to one individual person (and not jointly with other owners):
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
De communs biens ne tient lu nule severable actioun
63
(
1345
)
seoffrir un a voucher et autre de pleder al accion d'autre parcelle qe serreit a supposer nostre accion estre severable
19 Ed III 259
(
1452
)
quere si home soit seisi en fee de un carue de terre severable vers toutz auterz forsque vers un
i 17
1
law
severalty, private property, land held in individual ownership (and not jointly with other owners):
(
1314
)
pur ceo qe nous trovames etc. [...] en nostre several damage etc. Scrope: Ditez coment vostre severable, le quel la terme
[
sic] fuit semee
Ed II xvi 115
severable (s.xiiiex)