partible

• The Cetma bike has a bi-partible frame, which means it can be separated into two pieces for easy transport and storage. —  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
• "If ceorls have a common meadow, or other partible land to fence, and some have fenced their part, some have not, and —  "Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
• In virtue of the law of partible inheritance, the death of every proprietor brings about a kind of revolution in property: not only do his possessions change hands, but their very nature is altered; since they are parcelled into shares, which become smaller and smaller at each division. —  American Institutions and Their Influence
• Thus not only does the law of partible inheritance render it difficult for families to preserve their ancestral domains entire, but it deprives them of the inclination to attempt it, and compels them in some measure to co-operate with the law in their own extinction. —  American Institutions and Their Influence
• Thus one of the most immediate consequences of the partible quality of estates has been to create a class of free laborers. —  American Institutions and Their Influence

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