PORTIONER 



will, left a share of his estate to a 

 child, and, after making his will, 

 but before his death, has given the 

 child the same amount or some- 

 thing equivalent, a court of equity 

 will presume that he meant the 

 gift to be in satisfaction of the 

 legacy ; and the child will not be 

 allowed to have both, to the im- 

 poverishment of other children. 



Portioner. In Scots law, a 

 female heir at law, corresponding 

 to a coparcener in English law. 

 All portioners inherit equally the 



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Portland. Pen- 

 insula of Dorset- 

 shire, England, 

 known as the 

 Isle of Portland. 

 Connected with the 

 mainland by Chesil 

 Bank, it is 4 m. 

 long, with an aver- 

 age breadth of one 



PORTLAND 



property. On the 

 E. side is the 

 prison. Opened in 

 1848, it has ac- 

 commodation for 

 800 men, and was 

 used for convicts, 

 many of whom 

 worked in the 

 quarries, until the 

 Great War. In 

 1921 it was made 

 into a Borstal In- 

 stitution. There is 

 a castle built in 

 the 16th century, and still used 

 officially, and remains of a much 

 older one. 



Pennsylvania Castle was built 

 about 1800 by a member of the 

 Penn family. Portland has a har- 

 bour of refuge used by the navy. 

 Known as Portland Roads, it cov- 

 ers 2,200 acres, and is protected by 

 gigantic breakwaters built by con- 



inheritable estate of a common 

 ancestor dying without male issue. 

 In ecclesiastical usage the term 

 portioner is applied to a minister 

 who serves a benefice jointly with 

 others, and receives only a portion 

 of the tithes or benefits of the 

 living, and also to the portion com- 

 monly allotted to a vicar out of a 

 rectory or impropriation. 



Portishead. Urban dist. and 

 watering-place of Somerset, Eng- 

 land. It stands on the estuary of 

 the Severn, 11 m. from Bristol, 

 with a station on the G.W. Rly. 

 There is a dock here covering 12 

 acres, belonging to the port of 

 Bristol. S. Peter's is an old church, 

 and near the town are traces of an 

 ancient camp. Pop. 3,300. 



Port Jackson. Spacious har- 

 bour of New South Wales, Aus- 

 tralia. The so-called Parramatta 

 river is really the largest arm of the 

 harbour. Sydney was f9unded on 

 one of its coves, and has since 

 spread along both the N. and S. 

 shores, which are connected by 

 numerous ferries. See Sydney. 



PortJervis. City of New York, 

 U.S.A., in Orange co. It stands at 

 the junction of the rivers Navesink 

 and Delaware, 87 m. by rly. N.W. 

 of New York City, and is served by 

 the Erie and the New York, On- 

 tario and Western Rlys. It is a 

 popular summer resort, and has a 

 Federal building and a public 

 library, and various industrial 

 establishments, including rly. re- 

 pair shops, iron-foundries, and silk, 

 glove, stove, and glass factories. 

 Port Jervis was incorporated in 

 1853 and became a city in 1907. 

 Pop. 10,200. 



Portland, Dorsetshire. 1. The castle, built by Henry VIII. 2. Main entrance to the 

 prison. 3. Portland Harbour from the mainland, showing the torpedo factory 



mile. A rly. line runs down the 

 peninsula from Melcombe Regis, 

 and it can also be reached by 



Portishead, Somerset. Parish church 

 of S. Peter 



steamer from Weymouth. The 

 line passes by Easton, Rod well, 

 and Portland. 



Portland is noted for its building 

 stone, the quarries being crown 



vict labour. The largest of them 

 cost over 1,000,000. The harbour 

 is strongly fortified. The inhabi- 

 tants, who live by fishing and pas- 

 turing sheep, retain some of their 

 old customs. As the Isle of Slingers, 

 Portland is the scene of T. Hardy's 

 story, The Well -Beloved. It forms 

 an urban district. Pop. 17,000. 



Portland. Three towns in- Aus- 

 tralia. One is in New South Wales, 

 in Roxburgh co., 12 m. N.W. of 

 Lithgow on the rly. to Mudgee. 

 Pop. 2,400. The second is in Vic- 

 toria, in Normanby co., on the 

 coast on the W. side of Portland 

 Bay ; it is an agricultural centre 

 and rly. terminus 200 m. W.S.W. 

 of Melbourne. Pop. 2,400. The 

 third is in S. Australia, in Adelaide 

 co. Pop. 1,100. 



Portland. City of Maine, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Cumberland 

 co. - The largest and chief commer- 

 cial city of the state, it stands on 

 Casco Bay, 106 m. N.N.E. of 

 Boston, and is served by the Grand 

 Trunk and other rlys., and by 

 coasting steamers. Among its 

 chief buildings are the city hall, 



