Party Wall
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A wall erected on the line _ between two adjoining estates, belonging to different persons, for the use of both estates.
2 Bouv. Inst, note 1615.
It is ordinarily owned in common by the adjoining owners, but may be divided longitudinally or divided latitudinally, the sections being subject to mutual easements, or it may belong to one owner, and be subject to an easement in favor of the other.
50 N. Y. 646; 75 111. 118.