Apportionment

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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]