parcenary Law.
(ˈpɑːsənərɪ)
Also 7 -cin-.
[a. AF. parcenarie = OF. par{cced}onerie, personnerie, etc. (med.L. type *partionaria), f. par{cced}onier: see -ery, -ary.]
Joint heirship: = coparcenary 1.
| [a 1481 Littleton Tenures xxiii. (1516) D j b, Les autres poient tener le remenaunt en parcenarie & occupier en comen sans particion.] 1544 transl. H vij b, The other may holde the remenaunt in parcenary and occupy in common without partycion. 1658 Phillips, Parcinarie, in Common-law, is a holding of Land, by two, or more pro indiviso, or by Joynt-Tenants, otherwise called Copartners. 1821 Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 43, I proposed to abolish the law of primogeniture, and to make real estate descendible in parcenary to the next of kin. |