▪ I. coparcenary, -ery, n. Law.
(kəʊˈpɑːsɪnərɪ)
Forms as in coparcener, with -ere, -erie, -ery, -arie, -ary, -ory.
[f. co- + parcenary (a. OF. par{cced}onerie partnership). The spelling in -ery is more etymological.]
1. Joint share in an inheritance; joint heirship.
| 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 33 §1 All the odre forsaid Castelles..to holde in coparcenere as coparceners. 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 13 Pream., [They] wer seased in ther demean as of Fee in Cooparcenery. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §75 (1810) 76 Cadleigh..at the conquest, was held by Thanes in Copercinary. a 1635 Sir W. Pole Descr. Devon iii. (1791) 166 These lands..descended in coparcinory unto.. his twoe eldest daughters. 1767 Blackstone Comm. II. 187 An estate held in coparcenary is where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. 1871 Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. vii. 188 The notion of a great Frankish realm held in a sort of co-parcenary long survived. 1876 Digby 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.
| 1593 Bilson Govt. Christ's Ch. 111 Pastours then which feede the flocke, have coparcinerie with the Apostles. a 1617 Hieron Wks. II. 10 God vvill haue all reserued to Himselfe, and vvill admit no coparcinory. 1650 Fuller Pisgah iv. vii. 132 This Idol was held in Coparcenary betwixt them, and the Ammonites. 1865 Spectator 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.
| 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopr. xvi. iii. 332 They rule and govern in a kind of coparcenary way. 1858 J. B. Norton Topics 190 Members of coparcenary communities. 1880 J. B. Phear Aryan Village iii. 87 All the adult..members..have their own joint coparcenery interest in the property. |