Apportionment can refer to estate, the amount of compensation received by a worker[3] and in respect of time.

This term may be employed roughly and sometimes has no technical meaning; this indicates 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] 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 which he still retains.

To the same category belongs the apportionment of rent which takes place under various statutes (e.g. the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict.

c. 18), section 119, when land is required for public purposes; the Agricultural Holdings Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict.