A person who shares in a parcenary or inheritance, especially one of several heirs who inherit land jointly.
From co- + parcenar (from Old French parcener, from Latin partionarius, relating to division). The term developed in legal contexts to describe co-heirs and their shared property rights.
Medieval and early modern English had incredibly specific legal vocabulary—coparcenar tells us exactly what category of heir you were, and the word's disappearance shows how legal language evolves when property laws change.
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