parcenary

English

Etymology

See parcener, partner.

Noun

parcenary (plural parcenaries)

1. (law) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parcenary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)