Coparceners

[L. Lat. cohaeredes participes, coparticipes.] Persons holding an estate in coparcenary. See Coparcenary. Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.

2 Bl. Com. 187.

Bract. fol.

71 b, 75.

See Parceners. This word was anciently applied to males as well as females, but is now usually confined to the latter. In Virginia, however, the statute of descents still applies it to both male and female heirs.

4 Kent's Com. 367.