Law. [f. prec. by association with adjs. in -ARY: cf. mercenary.] Of or pertaining to coparceners.
1839. J. Rogers, Antipopopr., XVI. iii. 332. They rule and govern in a kind of coparcenary way.
1858. J. B. Norton, Topics, 190. ‘Education,’ writes Mr. W. P. Hammond, ‘may teach thrift, and excite members of coparcenary communities to seek after professions.’
1880. Sir J. B. Phear, Aryan Village in India, iii. 87. All the adult independent members … have their own joint (but separable) coparcenary interest in the property of the family.
