coparcener

American  

[koh-pahr-suh-ner] / koʊˈpɑr sə nər /

noun

1. a member of a coparcenary.

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coparcener British  

/ kəʊˈpɑːsɪnə /

noun

1. Also called: parcener.  law a person who inherits an estate as coheir with others

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Etymology

Origin of coparcener

1400–50; late Middle English. See co-, parcener

Example Sentences

Thus a testator died seized of property in fee simple and in fee tail—he had two daughters, and devised the fee simple property to one and the entailed property to the other; the first one claimed to have her share of the entailed property as coparcener and also to retain the benefit she took under the will.

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The coparcener with the eagle in all this beautiful nonsense is a bird that never existed at all, and who, having at last fallen from her high estate, is now principally useful as a name for a hotel that has been too often burned, or as the escutcheon of an insurance company.

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In the other, I was a coparcener, and only received on a division the equal portion allotted me.

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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.

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