Partition
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The division whicli is made between several persons of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of goods and chattels, which belong to them as coheirs or coproprietors. The term is more technically applied to the division of real estate made between coparceners, tenants in common, or joint tenants. Compulsory partition is that which takes place by a judicial proceeding for that purpose, without regard to the wishes of one or more of the owners. Voluntary partition is that made by the owners by mutual consent.