coparcener

Failing to secure its historical interests in a provision of the punishing, subsequently rescinded, Brest-Litovsk Pact has saddled Russia with a residual status as a coparcener over territory historically and psychologically regarded as belonging to it.

held: "One coparcener cannot lawfully alter, or deliver into the

The unity of time that is present in a joint tenancy is not present in coparcenary, as when one coparcener died, her interest passed to her heirs.

roperties held by a coparcener in a Hindu undivided family and property held by a person in fiduciary capacity are excluded from the definition of benami transaction.

(8) The parties that may seek partition (joint tenants, tenants in common, or coparceners, beneficial interests in a "dry trust," and homestead property after the death of the homestead devisor) and those that may not (tenants by the entireties property before divorce, remaindermen and reversionary interests, life estates, property held by bankruptcy trustees) are settled.

(4) For practical reasons, contrary to the common law rules of inheritance, where the Sovereign has no sons the Crown is inherited by the eldest daughter and her issue, rather than by all the Sovereign's daughters as coparceners. See William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1765) Vol 1, 186-7; and C d'O Farran, "The Law of Accession" (1953) 16:2 Mod L Rev 140, 141.