severance

severance
Act of severing, or state of being severed; partition; separation; e.g. a claim against a party may be severed and proceeded with separately. Fed.R.Civil P. 21.
Separation of cases so that they can be tried separately. Severance divides lawsuit into two or more independent causes, each of which terminates in separate, final and enforceable judgment. Kansas University Endowment Ass'n v. King, 162 Tex. 599, 350 S.W.2d 11, 19.
The conversion of a joint tenancy into a tenancy in common. The destruction of any one of the unities of a joint tenancy. It is so called because the estate is no longer a joint tenancy, but is severed. Term may also refer to cutting of the crops, such as corn, wheat, etc., or the separating of anything from the realty

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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