noun
- joint ownership or inheritance of property by two or more heirs
Usage: legal
Examples
- The estate was held in coparcenary by the three sisters.
- Under the old law, coparcenary allowed multiple heirs to share property rights.
- The brothers disputed the terms of their coparcenary arrangement.
- Coparcenary differs from joint tenancy in several important ways.
- The legal concept of coparcenary has ancient roots in English common law.
- Their coparcenary was dissolved when one heir bought out the others.