In successive generations, smaller undivided interests descend to the next generation.

You can purchase fractionals, lock-offs, biennials or undivided interests, to name a few.

As original allottees die, their heirs receive equal, undivided interests in the allottees' lands.

Worse yet, each successive generation found their parcels became splintered into multiple undivided interests in land, with many parcels having dozens (and in some cases, hundreds) of owners.

After completing his purchase of Ballast, Commodore Gardner sold to his friends, including Henry Corning, Will Claflin and Civil War General James Barnett, undivided interests with the right to build a cottage.