Distribution

In practice

The division by order of the court having authority, among those entitled thereto, of the residue of the personal estate of an intestate, after payment of the debts and charges.

13 111. App. 560.

The term sometimes denotes the division of a residue of both real and personal estate, and also the division of an estate according to the terms of a will. DISTRIBUTIVE FINDING OF THE ISsue. The Jury are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears to them to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are cases in which an issue may be found distributively, i. e., in part for plaintiff, and in part for defendant. Thus, in an action for goods sold and work done, if the defendant pleaded that he never was indebted, on which issue was joined, a verdict might be found for the plaintiff as to the goods, and