joint tenant
noun[C]
LAW,PROPERTYukusapersonwhoownsawholebuildingorpieceoflandwith at least one otherperson, and who will automicallybecometheownerof all of it if the otherownersdie
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tenant in common
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joint tenant
Acts of parliament in 154041 and in 154546 attested this grant, making his wife in the second actjointtenantwith him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A married woman's rights in land which she held asjointtenantwere no different from those of a man holding jointly with other men.
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The grand incident of joint tenancy is survivorship, by which the entire tenancy on the decease of anyjointtenantremains to the survivor.
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How are the personal representatives of the survivingjointtenantto know whether any of those things have happened?
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Therefore, similar protection is passed on to the personal representatives of the survivingjointtenant.
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What will happen if onejointtenantis working away from the property?
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If there has been any severance thejointtenanthas to make sure that there is a memorandum of severance.
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They have to speak of something which the otherjointtenantdid not do.
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But the diffi- culty arose when one of the joint tenants died and the property passed solely to the survivingjointtenant.
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My advice is that on the death of the last survivingjointtenantonly can the relatives of that survivor claim.
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