Raising Portions
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A term used in old English law for the charging of a devise to dne child of testator, with the pajmient of certain sums to others. RAN (Saxon). Open theft or robbery. Cowell.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
When a landed estate is settled on an eldest son, it is generally burdened with the payment of specific sums of money in favor of his brothers and sisters. A direction to this effect is calied a direction for "raising portions for younger children;" and, for this purpose, it is usual to demise or lease the estate to trustees for a term of years, upon trust to rnise the required portions by a sale or mortgage of the same. Mozley & Whitley.
Defined under Raise in Black's Law Dictionary.