Purparty

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purparty \Pur"par`ty\, n. [OF. pourpartie; pour for + partie a
     part; cf. OF. purpart a respective part.] (Law)
     A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a
     coparcener. [Written also {purpart}, and {pourparty}.]
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           I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as
           well as my own thirds.                   --Walpole.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PURPARTY. That part of an estate, which having been held in common by 
  parceners, is by partition allotted to any of them. To make purparty is to 
  divide and sever the lands which fall to parceners. Old Nat. Br. 11.