Severance
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[1913 Webster]  severance n 1: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, {falling out}] 2: the act of severing [syn: severance, severing]  Severance, CO (town, FIPS 69150) Location: 40.52241 N, 104.84961 W Population (1990): 106 (46 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Severance, KS (city, FIPS 64025) Location: 39.76686 N, 95.24885 W Population (1990): 98 (53 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66087 Severance, NY Zip code(s): 12872  severance [siviərənsskiːm] Abbruch  severance elvágás elválasztás kettéválás különválasztás különválás  SEVERANCE, pleading. When an action is brought in the name of several plaintiffs, in which the plaintiffs must of necessity join, and one or more of the persons so named do not appear, or make default after appearance, the other may have judgment of severance, or, as it is technically called, judgment ad sequendum solum. 2. But in personal actions, with the exception of those by executors, and of detinue for charters, there can be no summons and severance. Co. Lit. 139. 3. After severance, the party severed can never be mentioned in the suit, nor derive any advantage from it. 4. When there are several defendants, each of them may use such plea as, he may think proper for his own defence; and they may join in the same plea, or sever at their discretion; Co. Litt. 303, a except perhaps, in the case of dilatory pleas. Hob. 245, 250. But when the defendants have once united in the plea, they cannot afterwards sever at the rejoinder, or other later stage of the pleading. Vide, generally, Bro. Summ. and Sev.; 2 Rolle, 488; Archb. Civ. Pl. 59. SEVERANCE, estates. The act by which any one of the unities of a joint tenancy is effected, is so called; because the estate is no longer a joint tenancy, but is severed. 2. A severance may be effected in various ways, namely: 1. By partition, which is either voluntary or compulsory. 2. By alienation of one of the joint tenants, which turns the estate into a tenancy in common. 3. By the purchase or descent of all the shares of the joint tenants, so that the whole estate becomes vested in one only. Com. Dig. Estates by Grant, K 5; 1 Binn. R. 175. 3. In another and a less technical sense, severance is the separation of a part of a thing from another; for example, the separation of machinery from a mill, is a severance, and, in that case, the machinery which while annexed to the mill was real estate, becomes by the severance; personalty, unless such severance be merely temporary. 8 Wend. R. 587.  severance Abbruch m severance Durchschlagen n; Durchtrennen; Abschlagen n; Abtrennen n severance Lösen n severance Unterbrechung f  Severance, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado Population (2000): 597 Housing Units (2000): 207 Land area (2000): 2.069528 sq. miles (5.360053 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.065733 sq. miles (0.170248 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.135261 sq. miles (5.530301 sq. km) FIPS code: 69150 Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08 Location: 40.535208 N, 104.850761 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Severance, CO Severance Severance, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas Population (2000): 108 Housing Units (2000): 53 Land area (2000): 0.128303 sq. miles (0.332303 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.128303 sq. miles (0.332303 sq. km) FIPS code: 64025 Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20 Location: 39.767644 N, 95.250303 W ZIP Codes (1990): 66087 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. 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