How To Use partible In A Sentence
- What might lead to marital disaster elsewhere works among the Canela because the men believe in partible paternity.
- And some colonial innovations—particularly partible inheritance—survived every attack. A History of American Law
- Inheritance is partible, but practiced with flexibility.
- Even here it is not exclusively the partible soul: it is still the impartible as well: what in it knows partition is parted without partibility; undivided as giving itself to the entire body, a whole to a whole, it is divided as being effective in every part. The Six Enneads.
- Particularly by the sixteenth century, however, an additional tension had been introduced into the system of partible inheritance.
- Equally influenced by the nobility's strong tradition of partible inheritance, noblewomen shared men's overwhelming preference for naming immediate family members as heirs.
- Early transfers of property, large dowries, and a system of partible inheritance favored the entry of sons and sons-in-law into commercial ventures at an early age.
- Now let us eliminate the corporeal mass of the hand, retaining the power it exerted: is not that power, the impartible, present integrally over the entire area of control? The Six Enneads.
- a partible estate
- Between the Atlantic and the Elbe, around the Mediterranean, in Poland and in Russia, there was hardly a family without some land, be it ever so small, thanks to partible inheritance.