Definition of Parcenary

1. n. The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Definition of Parcenary

1. Noun. (legal) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship. ¹

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Definition of Parcenary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parcenary

parcel post
parceled
parceled out
parceling
parcellate
parcellated
parcellates
parcellating
parcellation
parcellations
parcelled
parcelling
parcels
parcelwise
parcenaries
parcenary (current term)
parcener
parceners
parch
parched
parchedness
parcheesis
parches
parchesi
parchesis
parching
parchingly
parchisi
parchisis
parchment

Literary usage of Parcenary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1877)
"In Virginia, an estate in co-parcenary arises by the Statute of Descents (VC c. 123, § 1), whenever there are several relatives in equal degree to the ..."

2. An Elementary Treatise on the Law of Real Property by Elliott Judd Northrup (1919)
"It is created by descent only and is the only form of concurrent ownership that is so created. Co-parcenary .occurs by the common ..."

3. A Digest of English Civil Law by William Geldart, William Searle Holdsworth, Robert Warden Lee, John Charles Miles, Edward Jenks (1914)
"... parcenary 1762. Where, under the law of inheritance, real HOW created estate descends upon two or more persons as co-heirs of the purchaser or person ..."

4. Handbook on the Law of Real Property by Earl Palmer Hopkins (1896)
"Estates In Co-parcenary. 211-212. Estates In Entirety. 218. ... (o) Estates in co-parcenary (p. 336). (d) Estates in entirety (p. 337). ..."

5. Modern Precedents in Conveyancing: With Variations Adapting Them to by Charles Barton (1821)
"Vendor joint- tenant, tenant in common or co-parcenary. No. XXVI. Conveyance of a Moiety or oilier undivided Part of Freehold Hereditaments to a Purchaser ..."

6. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"parcenary. The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by ... A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in co-parcenary, (9. v. ..."

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