ALLOTMENT

allotment,n.1. A share or portion of something, such as property previously held in common

or shares in a cor-poration, or time assigned to speakers or sides in a deliberative assembly. [Cases:

Common Lands    14. C.J.S. Common Lands §§ 17–19.] 2. In American Indian law, the selection

of specific  land awarded to an individual allottee  from a common  holding. [Cases: Indians    13.

C.J.S. Indians §§ 82, 84.] — allot,vb. [Blacks Law 8th]