Define partition and distinguish it from transfer and from kitchen separation.

Partition (ansha-vanda) is the division of joint-family property among the coparceners — the joint family's property-unity dissolved into individual shares; the family's legal separation in the property dimension. Partition's double act: The severance — the joint status ended between the separating members; The allotment — the shares fixed (by agreement or court decree) and the property divided (physically, by value, or by the alternating/graded patterns — the chutthariya forms of Nepali practice). What partition is NOT (the definitional marks examiners test): Not the destruction of ownership — the shares crystallize; each coparcener becomes several-owner of the allotted share; the family continues personally (partition of property ≠ divorce of persons); Not a transfer — the coparcener's share is born, not bought: the no-consideration logic distinguishing partition from sale, with its consequences for registration duty and taxation (partition's concessional treatment as a non-transfer); Not merely the kitchen's separation — the social separation (mano chuttinu, § 8.4) is partition's social face, not its legal completion (the registration rules below).