Apportionment

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:51:57

Ap*por"tion*ment (#), n. [Cf. F. apportionnement, LL. apportionamentum.]

The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.

A. Hamilton.

 

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