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tenants by the entirety

tenants by the entirety A joint tenancy between husband and wife. At the death of one spouse, the property passes to the other spouse. … tenants by the entirety A joint tenancy between husband and wife. At the death of one spouse, the property

cotenant

cotenant : joint tenant

Joint-tenancy

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Undivided shares in land

equitable interest in any shares while preserving the incidents of a release of the legal estate by a joint tenant to the other joint tenants, and (by implication) the jus accrescendi (q.v.). Undivided shares can only be created

Copyhold

demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an … for life, but is forfeited by a second marriage or incontinency. The widow's free-bench is barred by a jointure, whether legal or equitable; or by the alienation of the copyhold lands by the husband, or even by

Tenancy in Common

shares, and either by the same act or by several acts, and by several titles, and not a joint title. A tenancy-in-common will, as a rule, be construed to exist wherever the instrument creating it indicates that … inland has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1, which reduced the interest of tenants-in-common to that of a cestui que trust under a trust for sale of land. The following notes have

Release

all of the others so as to sever that share. It also operates without mitter l'estate where one joint tenant releases his estate to the other, or all the other joint tenants so as not to create a

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