Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, an allotment; the share or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener by partition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A share, part, or portion of an
estate allotted to acoparcener .
Etymologies
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From Old French porpartie, from por ("for") and partie ("a part"). Compare Old French purpart ("a respective part").
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Examples
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'whom (after the death of her sister without issue) the whole in - heritance of her family of right belonged, he, by the King's ad - vice, and by his mother's permission, s entered into the whole purparty of his aunt the Countess Maud, and retained the same daring of his life j which was the subject of long litigation with.
portraymentfan1 commented on the word purparty
I like this word.
August 11, 2022