One-half Synonyms

About one-half of the members attended regularly.

One-half of the town is glebe belonging to the rectory.

One-half of the chamber retires automatically every two years.

When either husband or wife dies intestate one-third of the separate real estate of the deceased goes to the survivor if there are two or more children, one-half of it if there is only one child, the whole of it if there are no children, no issue of children, and no father, mother, brother or sister.

Otherwise he might marry a freewoman (the children were then free), who might bring him a dower which his master could not touch, and at his death one-half of his property passed to his master as his heir.