society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > have tenure of property [verb (intransitive)] > hold by several tenure (3)
Law. Of land: (Held) in a person's own right without being joined in interest with another (opposed to joint-tenancy, coparcenary, and…
in several Separately, individually; apart from others or the rest; as a separate member, unit, etc. Now rare.
to know one's several: see quots. Obsolete.