To be distributed in joint equal proportion, means when such an expression appears in a Will with reference to legatees, it creates only tenancy-in-common between them and the word 'joint' is not to be considered as giving a joint interest, but the same as if the testator had said 'to my children altogether of it', Ettrike v. Ettrike, 27 ER 426.
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