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The legal term apportionment (French: apportionement; Mediaeval Latin: apportionamentum, derived from Latin: portio, share), also called delimitation,[1] is in general the distribution or allotment of proper shares,[2] though may have different meanings in different contexts. Apportionment can refer to estate, the amount of compensation received by a worker[3] and in respect of time.
This term may be employed roughly and sometimes has no technical meaning; this indicates the distribution of a benefit (e.g. salvage or damages under the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, § 2), or liability (e.g. general average contributions, or tithe rent-charge), or the incidence of a duty (e.g. obligations as to the maintenance of highways).[2]
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- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Renton, Alexander Wood (1911). "Apportionment". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 226–227.
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