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 or ownership of property.

Etymologies

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co- +‎ parcenary (from the Old French parçonerie)

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Examples

  • A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than a joint family.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than a joint family.

    You Thought U.S. Tax Laws Were Complicated... 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    You Thought U.S. Tax Laws Were Complicated... 2005

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  • (Law) Of or pertaining to a coparcener (co-heir).

    September 2, 2008