How To Use Partible In A Sentence
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What might lead to marital disaster elsewhere works among the Canela because the men believe in partible paternity.
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And some colonial innovations—particularly partible inheritance—survived every attack.
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Inheritance is partible, but practiced with flexibility.
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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.
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Particularly by the sixteenth century, however, an additional tension had been introduced into the system of partible inheritance.
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Equally influenced by the nobility's strong tradition of partible inheritance, noblewomen shared men's overwhelming preference for naming immediate family members as heirs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In a society with partible inheritance rather than primogeniture, marginalized wives, daughters, and second sons made family relations simultaneously complementary and conflictual.
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Only in Kent and in Wales did the custom of gavelkind produce the partible inheritance which reduced many noble families to penury on the continent.
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In a region of narrow valleys, steep mountainsides, and rocky ridges, continuous population growth and practices of partible inheritance over time produced overpopulation, land scarcity, and rural poverty.
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Still, as noted earlier, testation practices in Newfoundland did not always conform to an English norm of primogeniture and impartible inheritance, even among the local elite.
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The code also allowed for partitioning of estates, thus contravening the tradition of impartible inheritance and, historians have argued, contributing to France's increasingly low birthrates as families sought to pass their land on intact.
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Declaring that primogeniture and impartible inheritance were inappropriate for Newfoundland circumstances, the act provided that real property in intestate estates should be distributed, like personal property, as chattel interests.
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This anthropological synthesis of syncretism and Melanesian partible personhood thus constitutes an extension of the new Melanesian ethnography toward the analysis of recent historical and religious change in the Pacific.
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Declaring that primogeniture and impartible inheritance were inappropriate for Newfoundland circumstances, the act provided that real property in intestate estates should be distributed, like personal property, as chattel interests.
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Equally influenced by the nobility's strong tradition of partible inheritance, noblewomen shared men's overwhelming preference for naming immediate family members as heirs.
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As a result of land reallocations in the past, partible inheritance practices among landowners resulted in plots of dwindling size in only a few generations.
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At the time of his marriage, his youngest siblings were not yet born, but adding a child or two to the partible inheritance equation would not have changed his prospects substantially.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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In the context of partible inheritance, marriage to close kin was one way of keeping farms from being parceled into tracts too small to be productive. 33
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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In principle, both men and women own property such as land, buildings, and animals, and inheritance is partible.
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Dutch practices of community property in marriage and partible family inheritance assured a surviving spouse half the couple's wealth and an equal portion for each child.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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The answer probably comes from the practice of partible inheritance, there being at times more than one East Saxon king.
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Large families and the practice of partible inheritance strained lands that under the best circumstances could only sustain sparse populations.
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Partible inheritance was, for example, a distinct feature of Kentish gavelkind tenures, which were classified as free, and also survived amongst customary tenants in parts of northern and eastern England.
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All the legal systems of France stipulated one form or another of partible inheritance.
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Note 36: On marriage strategies and partible inheritance see Dooling, "The Making of a Colonial Elite," 157 – 62. back
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While this was a deviation for the English population (particularly the middle-class English), who had come from a legal tradition of primogeniture and impartible inheritance, it was less a departure for the Irish population, for whom communal property and partible inheritance had been long-standing customary practices.
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For example, kinship practices that once favored partible inheritance may be collectively reformulated to favor primogeniture in response to shrinking land allotments and population growth.
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Their vital economic role was reflected in customary testamentary practices that adhered to a relatively gender-inclusive system of partible inheritance, contrasting with the English practice of primogeniture.
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Powys withstood encroachments from England and Gwynedd throughout its existence, although the Welsh custom of partible inheritance caused rivalries among the ruling family.
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Equal partible inheritance is the norm by both law and custom.
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Settlers brought with them the idea of land as a partible, bounded commodity, owned by an individual (or self-selected partnership), transferable, and exclusive in perpetuity.
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The farming class that predominated in post-famine Ireland turned increasingly to the restrictive practices of impartible inheritance, primogeniture, and the arranged match, with family hopes and resources pinned on the inheriting son and the first-married daughter.
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The remaining farming class in Ireland was more inclined to practice impartible inheritance and primogeniture: one son inherited, and represented an eligible partner for one daughter of another farming family, who was, in turn, expected to bring with her a sizeable dowry.
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There is, therefore, no escape: soul is, in the degree indicated, one and many, parted and impartible.
The Six Enneads.
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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.
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The latter is distinctively the "custom of Kent," and signifies that the land was "partible," and inherited by the sons in equal shares, the youngest son retaining the homestead, and making compensation to his brethren for this addition to his share.
The Customs of Old England
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In contrast, the Puritan settlers of New England came from East Anglia, where inheritance was traditionally partible.
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By contrast, in Ireland, a move to impartible inheritance coincided with the decline in women's economic and social status, particularly from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.
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Large families and the practice of partible inheritance strained lands that under the best circumstances could only sustain sparse populations.
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The Civil Code of 1867 called for partible inheritance, but parents can dispose freely of a third share of their property, and women have the right to receive and bestow property.
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Farmers practiced more cautious management of family land and greater control over marital arrangements in order to ensure the careful transfer of property to the following generation (reflected in the increasing incidence of the arranged match in post-famine Ireland and the wholesale shift to impartible inheritance).
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