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▪ I. coparcenary, -ery, n. Law.|kəʊˈpɑːsɪnərɪ|
Forms as in coparcener, with -ere, -erie, -ery, -arie, -ary, -ory.
[f. co- + parcenary (a. OF. parçonerie partnership). The spelling in -ery is more etymological.]
1. Joint share in an inheritance; joint heirship.
1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 33 §1 All the odre forsaid Castelles..to holde in coparcenere as coparceners. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 13 Pream., [They] wer seased in ther demean as of Fee in Cooparcenery. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §75 (1810) 76 Cadleigh..at the conquest, was held by Thanes in Copercinary. a1635Sir W. Pole Descr. Devon iii. (1791) 166 These lands..descended in coparcinory unto.. his twoe eldest daughters. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 187 An estate held in coparcenary is where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. vii. 188 The notion of a great Frankish realm held in a sort of co-parcenary long survived. 1876Digby Real Prop. v. §4. 242 note, An estate in coparcenary arises by devolution ab intestato to daughters, sisters, etc., or sons in gavelkind tenure.
2. Co-partnership; joint ownership. Also fig.
1593Bilson Govt. Christ's Ch. 111 Pastours then which feede the flocke, have coparcinerie with the Apostles. a1617Hieron Wks. II. 10 God vvill haue all reserued to Himselfe, and vvill admit no coparcinory. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. vii. 132 This Idol was held in Coparcenary betwixt them, and the Ammonites. 1865Spectator 14 Jan. 37 A thousand workmen..associating themselves in a legal coparcenery.
▪ II. coˈparcenary, a. Law.
[f. prec. by association with adjs. in -ary: cf. mercenary.]
Of or pertaining to coparceners.
1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. xvi. iii. 332 They rule and govern in a kind of coparcenary way. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 190 Members of coparcenary communities. 1880J. B. Phear Aryan Village iii. 87 All the adult..members..have their own joint coparcenery interest in the property. |