Purparty

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Pur´par`ty

(Law) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.

I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds.

- Walpole.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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