Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An equal share of an inheritance. See
coparcenary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) An equal share of an inheritance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law An
equal share of aninheritance .
Etymologies
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Shortening of coparcenary.
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Examples
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Now, Sir, meaning no disrespect to any of our co-heirs of this great quarter of the world, I am for none of this coparceny in a name that is to mingle us up with the riff-raff colonies and off-sets of every nation of Europe.
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Washington Irving 1821
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