Owelty
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The difference which is paid or secured by one coparcener to another for the purpose of equalizing a partition.
Litt. § 251; Co. Litt. 169a; 1 Watts (Pa.) 265; 1 Whart. (Pa.) 292; Cruise, Dig. tit. 19, § 32; 1 Vern. 133; Plowd. 134; 16 Viner, Abr. 223, pi. 3; Brooke, Abr. "Partition," § 5; 99 Tex. 51, 97 S. W. 334, Ann. Gas. 1914 A650; 117 IlL 3B1; 160 111. 602.