LEGAL WORD
Partition
Legal term · Property law
Partition
- Type: Legal term
- Area of law: Property law
1 What it means
Division of jointly owned property among co owners.
2 Use it in a sentence
The brothers filed a suit for partition of the ancestral house.
3 Make it stick
Write your own sentence using Partition about a case or topic you are studying this week, then check it against the meaning above.
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