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coparcener Law.|kəʊˈpɑːsɪnə(r)| Forms: 6 cooparsener, -parsoner, copartioner, -percioner, 6–7 copercener, -parcioner, 6– coparcener. [f. co- + parcener, a. OF. parçonier sharer, f. parçon:—L. partitiōn-em parting, division, partition.] One who shares equally with others in inheritance of the estate of a common ancestor; a co-heir or co-heiress.
1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 33 §1 His hole parte..as on of the heires and coparceners of the same Lyon late Lord Wellys. 1531Dial. Laws Eng. ii. xxx. (1638) 116 Coperceners of an advowson. 1538Leland Itin. IV. 46 Then it cam by Heires General to diverse Copartioners. 1594West 2nd Pt. Symbol., Chancerie §37 If they were join-tenants in common, or copercioners of other things. 1616B. Parsons Mag. Charter 14 There is no copercener with God, the grantor, heere. 1642J. Perkins Profit Bk. i. §73 If three coparceners be of a Seignorie in grosse and one grant his part. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 187 By common law: as where a person seised in fee-simple or in fee-tail dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives..these co-heirs are then called coparceners. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 516 An estate in coparcenary also frequently arises in consequence of gavelkind and other customary descents to all the male children, in which case they are coparceners. 1900Nation (N.Y.) 22 Nov. 400/3 ‘Ask Platt,’ said Croker..; and that he and all his coparceners say now. 1959Jowitt Dict. Eng. Law I. 488/2 Where before 1926 lands descended on an intestacy to several persons as co-heirs..the persons so inheriting were called coparceners. Ibid. 489/2 As from January 1, 1926, coparceners retain all their equitable rights in the proceeds of sale and in the land until sold. |