Parceners

The daughters of a man or woman seised of lands and tenements in fee simple or fee tail, on whom, after the death of such ancestor, such lands and tenements descend, and they enter. See "Coparceners." PARCHMENT (Fr.; Law Lat. pergamenum). Sheep skins dressed for writing; so called because invented at Pergamus, in Asia Minor, by King Eumenes, when the, exportation of paper, which was made in Egypt only, was forbidden by Ptolemy. PARCO FRACTO (Lat.) In English law. The name of a writ against one who violently breaks a pound and takes from thence beasts which, for some trespass done, or some other just cause, were lawfully impounded. PAROUS (Lat.) A park.