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APPORTIONMENT (Fr. apportionement; Med. Lat. apportionamentum; derived from Lat. portio, share) , distribution or allotment in proper shares; a term used in law in a variety of senses. (1) Sometimes it is employed roughly and with no technical meaning to indicate 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) In its strict legal interpretation apportionment falls into two classes, " apportionment in respect of estate " and " apportionment in respect of time." 1. Apportionment in respect of Estate may result either from the act of the parties or from the operation of law. Where a lessee is evicted from, or surrenders or forfeits possession of part of the property leased to him, he becomes liable at common law to pay only a rent apportioned to the value of the interest
Apportionment by operation of law may be brought about where by act of law a lease becomes inoperative as regards its subject-matter, or by the " act of God " (as, for instance, where part of an estate is submerged by the encroachments of the sea). To the same category belongs the apportionment of rent which takes place under various statutes (e.g. the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, 119, when land is required for public purposes; the Agricultural Holdings Act 1883, 41, in the case of a tenant
2. Apportionment in respect of Time.At common law, there was no apportionment of rent in respect of time. Such apportionment was, however, in certain cases allowed in England by the Distress for Rent Act 1737, and the Apportionment Act 1834, and is pow allowed generally under the Apportionment Act 187o. Under that statute ( 2) all rents, annuities, dividends and other periodical payments in the nature of-income are to be considered as accruing from day to day and to be apportionable in respect of time accordingly. It is provided, however, that the apportioned part of such rents, &c., shall only be payable or recover-able in the case of a continuing payment, when the entire portion of which it forms part itself becomes payable, and, in the case of a payment determined by re-entry, death or otherwise, only when the next entire portion would have been payable if it had not so determined ( 3). Persons entitled to apportioned parts of rent have the same remedies for recovering them when payable as they would have had in respect of the entire rent; but a lessee is not to be liable for any apportioned part specifically. The rent is recoverable by the heir or other person who would, but for the apportionment, be entitled to the entire rent, and he holds it subject to distribution ( 4). The Apportionment Act 1870 extends to payments not made under any instrument in writing ( 2), but not to annual sums made payable in policies of insurance ( 6). Apportionment under the act can be excluded by express stipulation.The apportionment created by this statute is " apportionment in respect of time," The cases to which it applies are mainly cases of either (A) apportionment of rent due under leases where at a time between the dates
interest
(A) With regard to the former of these classes, it may be noticed that although apportioned rent becomes payable only when the whole rent is due, the landlord, in the case of the bankruptcy of an ordinary tenant
(B.) With regard to the apportionment of income, the only points requiring notice here are that all dividends payable by public companies are apportionable, whether paid at fixed periods or not, unless the payment is, in effect, a payment of capital ( 5).The Apportionment Act 1870 extends to Scotland and Ireland. It has been followed in many of the British colonies (e.g. Ontario, Rev. Stats., 1897, C. 170, 4-8; New Zealand, No. 4 of 1886; Tasmania, No. 8 of 1871; Barbados, No. 12 of 1891, 9-12). Similar legislation has been adopted in many of the states of the American Union, where, as in England, rent was not, at common law, apportionable as to time (Kent, Comm. iii. 469-472). An equitable apportionment, apart from statute law, arises where property is bequeathed on trust to pay the income to a tenant for life and the reversion to others, and the realization of the property in the form of a fund capable of producing income is postponed for the benefit of the estate. In such cases there is an ultimate apportionment between the persons entitled to the income and those entitled to the capital of the accumulations for the period of such postponement. The rule followed is this: the proceeds, when realized, are apportionable between capital and income by ascertaining the sum which, put out and accumulated at 3 % per annum from the day of the testator's death (with yearly rents and deducting income tax) would have produced at the day of receipt the sum actually received. The sum so ascertained should be treated as capital and the residue as income. (In re Earl
In addition to the authorities cited in the text, see Stroud, Jud. Dict. (2nd ed., London, 1903), S.V. " Apportion "; Bouvier, Law Did. (London and Boston, 1897), S.V. " Apportionment "; Ruling Cases (London, 1895), tit. " Apportionment "; Fawcett, Landlord and Tenant (London, 1905), pp. 238 et seq.; Foa, Landlord and Tenant (3rd ed., London, 1901), pp.. 112 et seq. (A. W. R.) End of Article: APPORTIONMENT (Fr. apportionement; Med. Lat. apportionamentum; derived from Lat. portio, share) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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