Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Joint inheritance or heirship of property.
- noun Joint ownership.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession, or joint succession, to an estate of inheritance in lands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
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- noun Joint
inheritance orownership ofproperty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than a joint family.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than a joint family.
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This effort seems to have been remarkably successful not only in terms of disrupting the nobility, but over two millennia later Chinese communities still practice a system of coparcenary inheritance in which a family's assets are divided more or less equally between heirs who then can take their inheritance and steer their own course.
John Wagner Givens: Ford, GM, IBM and China: A Match Made in the Han Dynasty 2009
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It includes only those persons who acquire by birth interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of the holder of the joint property for the time being.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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It includes only those persons who acquire by birth interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of the holder of the joint property for the time being.
reesetee commented on the word coparcenary
(Law) Of or pertaining to a coparcener (co-heir).
September 2, 2008