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Severalty, estates in
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Coparceners or parceners
By deed of partition, as (a) Where coparceners agreed to divide the estate in to equal parts in severalty, each to have a determinate portion. (b) Where they appointed some third person to divide the estate, and
Tenancy in Common
tenement and a distinct freehold. Tenants-in-common hold by unity of possession, because neither of them knows his own severalty, and therefore they all occupy promiscuously. This is the only unity belonging to the estate; for since the
common
interest held by another person [held the estate in ] see also tenancy in common at tenancy compare severalty 5 : common stock at stock
partition
or by legal proceedings of common or undivided interests in property and esp. real property : division into severalty of property held jointly or in common or the sale of such property by a court with division
Dower
fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty by metes and bounds, for her life, whether she have issue by her husband or not, and of
Estate
cross. (b) Reversions arising by operation of law. (3) The number and connection of the tenants; either (A) Severalty. (B) Joint-tenancy. (C) Coparceny. (D) Tenancy in common. (E) Entireties. 2. Bl. Com. cc. vii.-xii. According to article
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