The joint ownership of an estate or property by two or more heirs; the legal status or condition of being coparcel.
From co- + parcenary (from Old French parcenar). Parcenary itself comes from Latin partionarius, meaning divisible or sharable property, reflecting Roman inheritance practices.
Coparcenary is the reason many English estates became fragmented over generations—daughters could inherit alongside sons, which created these complex shared ownerships that sometimes lasted centuries and sparked family feuds.
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