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Coparcenary
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COPARCENARY (co-, with, and parcener, i.e. sharer; from 0. Fr. parconeer, Lat. partitio, division), in law, ...
Coparcenary 1) Joint ownership. 2) An estate that is jointly inherited, in equal shares, from a single ancestor.
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Coparcenary:
An obsolete co-ownership mechanism of English law where property, if there was no will, always went to the eldest son. If there was no male heir, the property went to all the female children collectively as a form of co-ownership.
Coparcenary
An estate in which all the heirs by descent are treated as one heir, having one estate.
Coroner
A public official who holds an inquiry into violent or suspicious deaths. A coroner has the power to summon people to an inquest.
An estate by the curtesy is an estate for life, created by act of law, which is defined as follows: When a man marries a woman, seised at any time during the coverture of an estate of inheritance, in severalty, in coparcenary, or in common, ...
Tenants in coparcenary. These always take and hold by descent as one heir. They have distinct estates, with right to possession in common. 2 Bl. Com. 187-91.
Tenants at will. One who holds lands as tenant at the will of the lessor.
 See also: Claim, Common law, Count, Take, Possession
  
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