As Morris shows, the Leeds middle class ( in sharp contrast to the rural gentry and aristocracy ) almost universally practiced partible inheritance.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

A partible estate.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The latter is distinctively the "custom of Kent," and signifies that the land was "partible," and inherited by the sons in equal shares, the youngest son retaining the homestead, and making compensation to his brethren for this addition to his share.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Customs of Old England] Reference

An Entelechy is not a thing of parts; how then could it be present partwise in the partible body?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

In view of this seceding and the ensuing partition we may legitimately speak of it as a partible thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

The advantages of eldest sons have been shown to exist in law and life, even where partible inheritance was the norm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Old: An Exchange] Reference

In contrast, the Puritan settlers of New England came from East Anglia, where inheritance was traditionally partible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War of South Carolina Aggression] Reference

Note 36: On marriage strategies and partible inheritance see Dooling, "The Making of a Colonial Elite," 157 – 62. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

The replacement of these practices with a more egalitarian pattern of partible inheritance swept the country after the American Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Nepotism] Reference

In the context of partible inheritance, marriage to close kin was one way of keeping farms from being parceled into tracts too small to be productive. 33.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

In addition, the significant role of women in economic production and their overall status also likely reinforced a tendency towards partible inheritance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

It also brought to a virtual halt the extensive practice of subdivision and partible inheritance that had permitted virtually universal and early marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Dutch practices of community property in marriage and partible family inheritance assured a surviving spouse half the couple's wealth and an equal portion for each child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

Meanwhile, the collapse of the potato culture at mid-century suspended the practices of subdivision and partible inheritance that had permitted universal and early marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Settlers brought with them the idea of land as a partible, bounded commodity, owned by an individual (or self-selected partnership), transferable, and exclusive in perpetuity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

It can be demonstrated that soul must, necessarily, be of just this nature and that there can be no other soul than such a being, one neither wholly partible but both at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

At the time of his marriage, his youngest siblings were not yet born, but adding a child or two to the partible inheritance equation would not have changed his prospects substantially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

Certainly, this method of partible inheritance was familiar to the Irish community and was likely transported from the old country to the new, where it was reinforced by local circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

She's developed an insightful quantitative model that shows how land productivity, population density, class structure, and female infanticide interact in agrarian economies with partible inheritance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommunicado at Media Central, Central Taiwan] Reference

Their vital economic role was reflected in customary testamentary practices that adhered to a relatively gender-inclusive system of partible inheritance, contrasting with the English practice of primogeniture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

This started to become a problem in particular for Catholic countries, many of which had the Napoleonic code with partible inheritance which encouraged family size control average size of a French family in 1850 was three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Granted, I Haven't Made an Exhaustive Review...] Reference

A principle attached to body might be exposed, at least by way of accident, to such partition and so be definable as passive and partible in view of its close relationship with the body of which it is so to speak a state or a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

As inheritance law evolved at the local level, the legal system accommodated local customary practices that advocated a more gender-inclusive system of partible inheritance than did the English tradition revolving around the male line of descent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Therefore it is either indivisible, or if it is partible, it is divisible into infinites; but the same thing cannot be many infinites (as a part of air is air, so a part of the infinite would be infinite, if the infinite is substance and a principle).    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

Even here it is not exclusively the partible soul: it is still the impartible as well: what in it knows partition is parted without partibility; undivided as giving itself to the entire body, a whole to a whole, it is divided as being effective in every part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

The importance of property to Newfoundland fishing families was reflected in the evolution of a system of usage and customary practices in which title by quiet possession and partible inheritance featured prominently and were recognized by the local community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

But, on the other hand, that first utterly indivisible Kind must be accompanied by a subsequent Essence, engendered by it and holding indivisibility from it but, in virtue of the necessary outgo from source, tending firmly towards the contrary, the wholly partible; this secondary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

Its oneness must not be entitled to that of monad and point: for these the mind abstracts extension and numerical quantity and rests upon the very minutest possible, ending no doubt in the partless but still in something that began as a partible and is always lodged in something other than itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

The Cetma bike has a bi-partible frame, which means it can be separated into two pieces for easy transport and storage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference

Thus one of the most immediate consequences of the partible quality of estates has been to create a class of free laborers.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Institutions and Their Influence] Reference

There was co-operation in working the fields but no communistic division of the crops, and the individual's hold upon his strips developed rapidly into an inheritable and partible ownership.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference

9At the Cape, repeated endogamous marriage was undoubtedly rooted in the transfer of wealth through partible inheritance, since marriage to relatives kept property within an extended family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Institutions and Their Influence] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Institutions and Their Influence] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy in America — Volume 1] Reference

"If ceorls have a common meadow, or other partible land to fence, and some have fenced their part, some have not, and.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference

Scholars do not agree on where New England’s system of partible descent that is, division of land among children came from.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

Professor Stone rejects that evidence on the ground that it amounted only to the formal abolition of primogeniture ” a "largely meaningless gesture," in a society where partible inheritance prevailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Old: An Exchange] Reference

partible descent, in colonial period, 66.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference