Law. Forms: 6 cooparsener, parsoner, copartioner, -percioner, 6–7 copercener, -parcioner, 6– coparcener. [f. CO- + PARCENER, a. OF. parçonier sharer, f. parçon:—L. partition-em parting, division, PARTITION.]
One who shares equally with others in inheritance of the estate of a common ancestor; a co-heir or co-heiress.
1503–4. Act 19 Hen. VII., c. 33 § 1. His hole parte … as on of the heires and coparceners of the same Lyon late Lord Wellys.
1531. Dial. Laws Eng., II. xxx. (1638), 116. Coperceners of an advowson.
1538. Leland, Itin., IV. 46. Then it cam by Heires General to diverse Copartioners.
1594. West, 2nd Pt. Symbol., Chancerie, § 37. If they were join-tenants in common, or copercioners of other things.
1616. B. Parsons, Mag. Charter, 14. There is no copercener with God, the grantor, heere.
1642. J. Perkins, Profit. Bk., i. § 73. If three coparceners be of a Seignorie in grosse and one grant his part.
1767. Blackstone, Comm., II. 187. By common law: as where a person seised in fee-simple or in fee-tail dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives … these co-heirs are then called coparceners.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), II. 516. An estate in coparcenary also frequently arises in consequence of gavelkind and other customary descents to all the male children, in which case they are coparceners.
