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tenants by the entirety

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cotenant

cotenant : joint tenant … cotenant : joint tenant

Joint-tenancy

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Undivided shares in land

Undivided shares in land. Before 1926 a legal estate in undivided shares in land was held by joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, and by husband and wife as tenants by entireties (see those titles), but now … 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 by way of trust for

Copyhold

only due upon an actual admittance. Tenants in common pay this fine apportionably, each according to his share. Joint tenants and coparceners pay a single fine for all. The practice as to the payment of the fine on … a single fine for all. The practice as to the payment of the fine on the admittance of joint tenants in this: two years' value is paid for the first life, half of that on the second, and

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

l'estate), as where a coparcener conveys his estate to his coparcener, or where one of more than two joint tenants conveys his interest to one or more but not all of the others so as to sever that … 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 severance. See Halsbury, L. of E., tit. 'Release.' In consequence of the

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