Allotment

A share or portion; that which is allotted. The division or distribution of land. AIM in nit System. A system in Kngland of assigning small portions of land, from the eighth of an acre to four or five acres, to be cultivated by day-laborers after their ordinary day's work, Brande. Allotment Certificate. A document issued to nn applicant for shares in a company or public loan announcing the number of shares allotted or assigned and the amounts and due dates of the calls or different payments to be made on the same. Where a letter withdrawing an application for shares was received after the shares had been allotted, but before the notice of allotment was mailed, the applicant was held entitled to have his name removed from the register of shareholders and to have the deposit returned; 81 L. T. It. 512. See Shareholder. To constitute a public allotment of shares there must be an issue to persons other than those taking shares in payment of wares or for work done, or as a qualification for a seat on the board; 19 T. L. R. 614. An allotment of shares is an appropriation by the directors of a company of shares to a particular person, but it does not necessarily create the status of membership; SO L. T. 347.

Partition, apportionment, division; the distribution of land under an inclosure act or shares in a public underinking or corporation.

— Allotment note. In English law. A writing by a seaman, whereby he makes an assignment of part of his wages in favor of his wife, father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, brother or sister. Every allotment note must be in a form sanctioned by the board of trade. The allottee, that is, the person in whose favor it is made, may recover the amount in the county court. Mozley & Whitley.

— Allotment system. Designates the practice of dividing land in small portions for cultivation by agricultural laborers and other cottagers at their leisure, and after they have performed their ordinary day's work. Wharton.

— Allotment warden. By the English general inclosure act, 1845, § 108, when an allotment for the laboring poor of a district has been made on an inclosure under the act, the land so allotted is to be under the management of the incumbent and church warden of the parish, and two other persons elected by the parish, and they are to be styled "the allotment wardens" of the parish. Sweet.

The act of allotting, v. Allot. ment by a seaman of a part of his wages

Partition, apportionment, division; the distribution of land under an inclosure act, or shares in a public undertaking or corporation.

Distribution by lot; partition; Merl. Rép. h. t. ALLOWANCE TO A _ PRI-