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Inheritance vs Coparcenary - What's the difference?

inheritance | coparcenary |

As nouns the difference between inheritance and coparcenary

is that inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death while coparcenary is joint inheritance or ownership of property.

inheritance

English

(wikipedia inheritance)

Alternative forms

* enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)

Noun

  • The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  • (lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  • (lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  • In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

    • Related terms

    * inherit * inheritable * inheritor * preheritance

    References

    * (EtymOnLine)

    coparcenary

    English

    Noun

    (coparcenaries)
  • Joint inheritance or ownership of property.

    • External links

    * ("coparcenary" on Wikipedia)