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Joint-tenancy
a joint-tenancy must subsist ab initio; an estate cannot become a joint-tenancy by the happening of any circumstances ex post facto. Upon the vesting of land in new trustees the estate vests anew in the new and continuing trustees. … speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the
habitual criminal law
and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or on the ground of being an ex post facto law.
retroactive
;esp : made effective as of a date prior to enactment, promulgation, or imposition [a tax] see also ex post facto law ret·ro·ac·tive·ly adv ret·ro·ac·tiv·i·ty [-ak-ti-və-tē] n
Deed
thereby given to him, or a husband repudiating his wife's purchase. (III.) Those making it void by something ex post facto; as (a) By an extra-judicial act, as a razure or interlinea-tion, or breaking off the seal, with the … actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a
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