The status or condition of being joint heirs; shared inheritance rights among multiple people.
Compound of 'fellow' (equal, joint) and 'heirship' (state of being an heir). This legal term emerged to describe situations where multiple people inherited property together rather than one sole heir.
In medieval times, when a landowner died without a clear successor, their children might inherit as 'fellow-heirs,' but this often led to disputes as brothers or sisters disagreed about how to divide or manage the shared estate!
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