Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of two or more persons sharing an inheritance; a joint heir. Also called parcener.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A coheir; one who has an equal portion of the inheritance in lands of his or her ancestor with others; in English law, a female coheir, or a coheiress. See coparcenary.
Wiktionary
- n. Either of several people who share an inheritance
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.
Examples
“I have been asking myself what difficulty might arise, if in this Soochet business, it should prove that the widow had a coparcener.”
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
“One of the general inspectors, a man I had never seen but whom I knew, by virtue of his rank, to be superior to our chalk-wielding coparcener, Lorns, also paced the wharf and appeared to bear me company in a distant, non-communicative way.”
“In the other, I was a coparcener, and only received on a division the equal portion allotted me.”
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
“Deciding a case filed by a man against his father for securing equal rights in property and business, the court said unless he could prove that it was an ancestral or a joint property and that he was a coparcener (shareholder in the ancestral property by virtue of birth), there was no relief available for him legally.”
“Therefore, where an eftate defcends to coparcener $j if the eldeft parcener divider or makes partition, (he”
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