See also:

• COPARCENARY (co-, with,. and parcener, i.e. sharer; from O. Fr. par confer, Lat. partitio, division)

COPARCENARY (co-, with,. and parcener, i.e. sharer; from O. Fr. See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par confer, See also:

• LAT

Lat. partitio, See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division)  , in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the descent oflands of See also:

• INHERITANCE

inheritance from an ancestor to two or more persons possessing an equal See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title to them . It arises either by See also:

• COMMON

common law, as where an ancestor See also:

• DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT (1755-1822)

dies intestate, leaving two or more See also:

• FEMALES

females as his co-heiresses, who then take as coparceners or parceners; or, by particular See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom, as in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of gavelkilad lands, which descend to all See also:

• MALES

males in equal degrees, or in de-See also:

• FAULT (Mid. Eng. faute, through the French, from the popular Latin use of fallere, to fail; the originallof the Latin being replaced in English in the 15th century)

fault of males, to all the daughters equally . These co-heirs, or parceners, have been so called, says See also:

• LITTLETON (or LYTTELTON), EDWARD, BARON (1589—1645)
• LITTLETON, SIR THOMAS DE (c. 1407-1481)

Littleton (§ 241), "because by See also:

• WRIT (O. Eng. gewrit, writ, from writan, to write)

writ the law will constrain them, that See also:

• PARTITION

partition shall be made among them." See also:

• COPARCENARY (co-, with,. and parcener, i.e. sharer; from O. Fr. par confer, Lat. partitio, division)

Coparcenary so far resembles See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint tenancy in that there is unity of title, See also:

• INTEREST

interest and See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession, but whereas joint tenants always claim by See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase, parceners claim by descent, and although there is unity of interest there is no entirety, for there is no See also:

• JUS

jus accrescendi or survivorship . Coparcenary may be dissolved (a) by partition; (b) by See also:

• ALIENATION (from Lat. alienus, belonging to another)

alienation by one coparcener; (c) by all the See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate at last descending to one coparcener, who thenceforth holds in severalty; (d) by a compulsory partition or See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale under the Partition Acts . The See also:

• TERM

term " coparcenary " is not in use in the See also:

• UNITED

United States, joint heirship being considered as tenancy in common .