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Coparceners

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate.

2 Bla. Com. 187.

In the old English and the American sense the term includes males as well as females, but in the modern English use Is limited to females; 4 Kent 366. But the husband of a deceased CO] entitled as tenant by the curtesy, holds as a coparcener with the surviving sisters of his wife, as does also the heir-at-law of his deceased wife upon his own death; Brown, Diet