purparty means A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Old French porpartie, from por (“for”) and partie (“a part”). Compare Old French purpart (“a respective part”).
noun
- A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.“1793 October 6, Horace Walpole, letter to “the Miss Berrys” (sisters Mary and Agnes Berry),
I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds.”