entia pars

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entia pars - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ENTIA PARS. The part of the eldest. Co. Litt. 166; Bac. Ab. Coparceners, C. 
  2. When partition is voluntarily made among coparceners in England, the 
  eldest has the first choice, or primer election, (q.v.) and the part which 
  she takes is called enitia pars. This right is purely personal, and 
  descends; it is also said that even her assignee shall enjoy it; but this 
  has also been doubted. The word enitia is said to be derived from the old 
  French, eisne the eldest. Bac. Ab. Coparceners, C; Keilw. 1 a, 49 a; 2 And. 
  21; Cro. Eliz. 18.