allotment,n.1. A share or portion of something, such as property previously held in common
or shares in a cor-poration, or time assigned to speakers or sides in a deliberative assembly. [Cases:
Common Lands 14. C.J.S. Common Lands §§ 17–19.] 2. In American Indian law, the selection
of specific land awarded to an individual allottee from a common holding. [Cases: Indians 13.
C.J.S. Indians §§ 82, 84.] — allot,vb. [Blacks Law 8th]