52 W. Va. 476, 44 S. E. 149, 61 L. R. A. 057.—-Tenant in capite. In feudal and old English law. Tenant in chief; one who held immediately under the king, in right of his crown and dignity. 2 Bl. Comm. 60.—Tenant im common. ly defined to be such as hold the same land together by several and distinct titles, but by unity of possession, because none knows his own severalty, and therefore they all occupy promiacuously. 2 Bl. Comm, 191. A tenancy in common is where two or more hold the same land, with interests accruing under different titles, or -accruing under the same title, but at different periods, or conferred by words of limitation im-