Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of two or more persons sharing an inheritance; a joint heir.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several people who
share aninheritance ; aparcener .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"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 Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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"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 Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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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.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Various 1885
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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 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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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.
Top Headlines 2009
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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.
Top Headlines 2009
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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.
Top Headlines 2009
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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.
Top Headlines 2009
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Therefore, where an eftate defcends to coparcener $j if the eldeft parcener divider or makes partition, (he
A Law Grammar; Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. 1791
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