severalty
Noun
Meaning
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
distinctness
separateness
discreteness
certain
individual
distinction
emphasis
distinctive
abstraction
insulation
detachment
dispersion
individuality
apportionment
disconnection
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History of IRA Background At the time the Act passed, it was United States policy to eliminate Indian reservations, dividing the communal territory and allotting 160-acre plots to individual heads of households, to be owned in severalty.
In referring to "men in severalty", Bell is referring to corporate kin groups such as lineages which, in having paid brideprice, retain a right in a woman's offspring even if her husband (a lineage member) deceases ( Levirate marriage ).