Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Severalty \Sev"er*al*ty\, n.
   A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a
   holding by individual right.

         Forests which had never been owned in severalty.
                                                  --Bancroft.

   {Estate in severalty} (Law), an estate which the tenant holds
      in his own right, without being joined in interest with
      any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy,
      coparcenary, and common. --Blackstone.

Source : WordNet®

severalty
     n : the state of being several and distinct [syn: {discreteness},
          {distinctness}, {separateness}]