ALLOTTING, or Allotment of Goods, in Matters of Commerce, is when a Ship's Cargo is divided into several Parts, to be bought by divers Persons, whose Names are Wrote on as many Pieces of Paper, which are applied by an indifferent Person to the several Lots or Parcels; by which means, the Goods are divided without Partiality; every Man having the Parcel which the Lot with his Name on, is applied to.
