SEPARALITER

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SEPARALITER. Separately. 
       2. This word is sometimes used in indictments to show that the 
  defendants are charged separately with offences, which, without the addition 
  of this word, would seem, from the form of the indictment, to be charged 
  jointly; as, for example, when two persons are indicted together for 
  perjury, and the indictment states that A and B came before a commissioner, 


  &c., this is alleging that they were both guilty of the same crime, when by 
  law their crimes are distinct, and the indictment is vicious; but if the 
  word separaliter is used, then the affirmation is that each was guilty of a 
  separate offence. 2 Hale, P. C. 174.