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portioner|ˈpɔəʃənə(r)|
[f. portion n. or v. + -er1, -er2. Cf. med.L. portiōnārius.]
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1. Scots Law. The proprietor of a small piece of land forming a portion of an original forty-merk land, which has been subdivided among co-heirs or otherwise broken up; a small laird.
1552Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 130 Quhair happinis to be sindrie portioneris of landis within the Schyir, the Scheref sall adjown the samyn togidder, quhill he mak the fouretie mark land of auld extent. 1569Ibid. 676 Alexander Chalmer portioner of Petty. 1674in Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. (1721) I. 367 Robert Schaw Portioner in Auchmouty [fined] in 49 Pounds. 1791Statist. Acc. Scot. I. 9 There are sixteen greater, and a considerable number (about a hundred) of smaller proprietors, called here Portioners, from their having a small portion of land belonging to them. 1833Fraser's Mag. Oct. 396 My father belonged to that respectable class of landowners termed portioners.
b. heir-portioner or heiress-portioner: One of two or more heirs female who succeed to equal portions of a heritage in default of heirs male; or the son or other male representative of such a joint-heiress.
1576Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 571 Alisoun Dunbar ane of the airis portionaris of the lordschip of Loch and Kilconquhair. 1655in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 29 2 We Marion Boyd and Zacharias McCallum aires portionairis to umquhill Mr. Zacharias Boyd. 1765Act 5 Geo. III, c. 26 Preamble, The eldest heir female always succeeding without division and excluding heirs portioners. 1886Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 29 §19 The eldest of such heirs portioners shall succeed to the tenancy without division.
†2. Eccl. = portionist 2. Obs.
1670Blount Law Dict., Portioner (..Portionarius),..where a Parsonage is served by two or sometimes three Ministers alternately..the Ministers are called Portioners, because they have but their Portion or Proportion of the Tythes or Profits of the Living. 1848Wharton Law Lex., Portioner, a minister, who, together with others, serves a benefice, because he has only a portion of the tithes or profits of the living.
3. Eng. Law. One of several persons among whom a settled fund is appointable; a sharer. (Cf. portion n. 2.) rare.
1884Sir E. E. Ray in Law Times Rep. L. 261/1 In none of the decisions or dicta has the prior right of the portioners to receive their portions out of the estate been questioned.
4. techn. One of a number of artificers who each contribute a certain part of the complete article.
1879Globe 11 Oct. 1/4 Each of the several contributors—technically called portioners.
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5. One who divides (anything) into portions or shares. rare—0.
1775in Ash; and in later dicts. |