Definitions for "PARTITION ACTION"
Court action to order a compulsory sale of real estate owned jointly between two or more owners. A partition action divided the proceeds of a real estate sale among the joint owners rather than physically dividing the real estate into separate undivided interests.
a process which permits joint owners of property to seek judicial assistance in terminating the joint ownership and in accounting for the value of each owners interest
Court action by which co-owners can sever their joint ownership, either by a division of the land into separate parcels, if practical, or by a sale of the property and a division of the proceeds in accordance with the owners' respective interests.
Keywords:  kind, see
See Partition in Kind.