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The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or coparceners, before a division of the joint estate. … [Read more...] about PARCENARY

Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135. In the law of real property, the term "paramount title" properly denotes one which is superior to the title with which it is compared, in the sense that the former is the … [Read more...] about PARAMOUNT

A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in coparcenary. … [Read more...] about PARCENER

Title that is superior to claim of title by others. … [Read more...] about PARAMOUNT TITLE

Engl. law. The daughters of a man or woman seised of lands and tenements in fee simple or fee tail, on whom, after the death of such ancestor, such lands and tenements descend, and they enter. … [Read more...] about PARCENERS