parcenaryn.
/ˈpɑːs(ᵻ)n(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɑrs(ə)nˌɛri/ Law. Now historical.
Joint heirship; = coparcenary n. 1.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > coheir > position of
parcenaryc1436
coparcenary1503
coparceny1556
coheirship1608
copartnershipa1676
fellow-heirship1840
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 25 Owt takyne in plees where that many pletyn in comoun or in parceneyr [Fr. en comun ou en parcenerye]..they shulden doon alle essoynene til an other day.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iv. l. 1759 And [the Picts] walde haf beyn in parcenary [E. partanary, E.2 parcyonary] [sc. with the Scots] In to þat lande, duellande þaim by.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Parcinarie, in Common-law, is a holding of Land, by two, or more pro indiviso, or by Joynt-Tenants, otherwise called Copartners.
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 38 I proposed to abolish the law of primogeniture, and to make real estate descendible in parcenary to the next of kin.
1851 Debow's Rev. June 638 The real, personal, and mixed estate of any citizen of Texas, dying intestate, descends in parcenary to his or her kindred, male and female, as follows.
1962 L. A. Manyon tr. M. Bloch Feudal Society I. (ed. 2) 131 Many petty lords..particularly in central France and in Tuscany, practised parcenary just as the peasants did, exploiting their inheritance in common, living all together in the ancestral castle or at least sharing in its defence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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