TENANT
Categories: Contracts
Definition (1910 Edition)
chase or grant to two or more persons. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance. commencin at one and the same time, and held by one an the same undivided possession. The grand incident of joint tenancy is survivorship, by which the entire tenancy on the decease of any joint tenant remains to the survivors, and at length to the Jast survivor. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1292; Simons v. McLain, 51 Kan. 153, 32 Pac. 919: Thornburg v. Wiggins, 185 Ihd. 178, 34
fee-simple, fee-tail, for life, for years, or at will. 2 Bl. Comm. 179. Persons who own lands by a joint title created expressly by one and the same deed or will. 4 Kent, Comm. 357. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. L
fee-simple, fee-tail, for life, for years, or at will. 2 Bl. Comm. 179. Persons who own lands by a joint title created expressly by one and the same deed or will. 4 Kent, Comm. 357. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. L
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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