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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

2 Bl. Comm. 187.

In the old English and the American sense, the term includes males as well as females, but in the modem English use is limited to females.

4 Kent, Comm. 462; 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1781.