Meaning & use
Parcenary
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In law, the joint ownership or inheritance of property by two or more heirs, called parceners, as a single estate.
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Under old English law, an estate held in parcenary passed jointly to the deceased's daughters.
The dispute centered on whether the land was still held in parcenary.
A note on using this word
Parcenary was especially relevant historically when a landowner died leaving multiple daughters and no son, causing the estate to be shared equally among them as coparceners.
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coheirshipjoint tenancy
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