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Webster 1913 Edition


Apportionment

Ap-por′tion-ment

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
apportionnement
, LL.
apportionamentum
.]
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
A. Hamilton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Apportionment

APPO'RTIONMENT

,
Noun.
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a dividing and assigning to each proprietor his just portion of an undivided right or property.