Word of the Day - Partible

partible

adjective
Law
Involving or denoting a system of inheritance in which a deceased person's estate is divided equally among the heirs.
‘the entire family lost status as a consequence of partible inheritance’

Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘able to be parted’): from late Latin partibilis, from Latin partiri divide into parts.

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Judge Jameson evenly partitioned the partible estate of the Thompsons in accordance with current laws. They had 12 children. As a result, each one got 1/12 of the proceeds from the sale of the single acre of swampy land and
absorbed the costs of hauling away the decrepit single-wide mobile home. Each child wound up with about $1234.51 and some of the candy bars from the freezer.

[It always seems silly when a person says "about" and then quotes an exact number. That's why I did it here, to be silly. Live with it!]