Severance
3 definitions found for this term.
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Where a court excises a discrete and identifiable measure of a challenged law without altering the overall structure or operation of the law in which it is contained.
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A judicial decision not to try more than one accused, or more than one count, on the same information.
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Dividing a property into separate lots.