In old English law. A device, award, or decree; also a devise; also bounds or limits of division of a parish or farm, etc. Cowell. Also a court held on the boundary, in order to settle disputes of the tenants. Divisibilis est semper divisibilis. A thing divisible may be forever divided. … [Read more...]

Lat. I give. The ancient and aptest word of feoffment and of gift. 2 BL Comm. 310, 316; Co. Litt. 9. … [Read more...]

That which is susceptible of being divided. Divisible contract. One which is in its nature and purposes susceptible of division and apportionment, having two or more parts in respect to matters ana things contemplated and embraced by it, not necessarily dependent on each other nor intended by the parties so to be. Horseman v. Horseman, 43 Or. 83, 72 Pac. 698. … [Read more...]

Latin: I give that you may give; I give [you] that you may give [me.] A formula in the civil law, constituting a general division under which those contracts (termed "innominate") were classed in which something was given by one party as a consideration for something given by the other. Dig. 19, 4; Id. 19, 5, 5; 2 Bl. Comm. 444. … [Read more...]

One which is in its nature and purposes susceptible of division and apportionment having two or more parts in respect to matters and things contemplated and embraced by it not necessarily dependent on each other nor intended by the parties so to be. … [Read more...]