Summary

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

Partition is not a technical term of Scots law. In Scotland division of common property is effected either extra-judicially, or by action of declaratory and division or division and sale in the court of session, or (to a limited extent) in the sheriff courts. Rights of common are not divisible in English law without an act of parliament or a decree of the in closure commissioners, but in Scotland the act of 1695, c.
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