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for this purpose, the date of payment, not the date of the declaration of the dividend, is the date of 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

See Executors and Administrators.

In practice. The apportionment and division, under authority of a court, of the remainder of the estate of an intestate, after payment of the debts and charges, among those who are legally entitled to share in the same. Rogers v. Gil-lett, 56 Iowa, 266, 9 N. W. 204; William Hill Co. v. Lawler, 116 Cal. 359, 48 Pac. 323; In re Creighton, 12 Neb. 280, 11 N. W. 313 ; Thomson v. Tracy, 60 N. Y. 180.

— Statute of distributions. A law prescribing the manner of the distribution of the estate of an intestate among his heirs or relatives. Such statutes exist in all the states.

A division among several; the giving to each of several his or her share, as, the division of the effects of an intestata In English law. Distributions, statutes eft the statute of 33 and 33 Car. II., c. 10, and the statute of 29 Car. II., a 3. a portion of territory, defined by law, within which a certain jurisdiction or authority may be exercised; a civil division of a state or country for judicial or other purposes; any limited extent of teri'itory; or by still further extension of meaning, any extent of territory for any purpose. District court: a federal court held in each of the districts into which the United States are divided; a state court held in each of the districts into which some of the states are divided.

In practice. The apportionment and division, under authority of a court, of the remuinder of the estate of an intestate, after payment of the ‘debts and charges, among those who are legally entitled to share in the same. DISTRIBUTIVE FINDING OF THE

The division of the personal tate among his next of kin. In England, Distributions are the 22 & 23 Car. II. Car. II. c. 3.

[Lat distribu Ho, from distribuere, to distribute.] A dealing or division among several; a dealing in portions or shares; the giving to each of several his pr her share.* Commonly used to express the division of the personal effects of an intestate among his widow and children or next of kin. See Distributions, Statute of.