Definition of "coparcenary" []

• Joint inheritance or heirship of property. Also called parcenary. (noun)
• Joint ownership. (noun)

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• "A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than a joint family."
• "This effort seems to have been remarkably successful not only in terms of disrupting the nobility, but over two millennia later Chinese communities still practice a system of coparcenary inheritance in which a family's assets are divided more or less equally between heirs who then can take their inheritance and steer their own course."
• "It includes only those persons who acquire by birth interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of the holder of the joint property for the time being."