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Per my et per tout

see Co. Litt. 186 a. If any joint tenant severs by alienating his share he destroys the joint tenancy in that share and the grantee obtains no joint tenancy. See JOINT TENANTS; ENTIRETIES.

Entireties, tenancy by

Matched in: Term Entireties, tenancy by

Estate

grant, without expressing any term at all. (b) Legal, or created by operation of law; they are (a) tenancy in tail after possibility of issue extinct, (b) tenancy by the courtesy of England, (c) tenancy in dower. … 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 31-A(2)-- (a)

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Tenancy by the entirety

Matched in: Term Tenancy by the entirety

Husband and wife

be treated as two persons. Under s. 39, ibid., and the 6th sched. To that Act, Part III, tenancies by entireties was converted to joint tenancies upon trust for sale, and by s. 184, ibid., in cases

Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in

bodies, should they afterwards be divorced causa pr'contractus vel consanguinitatis vel affinitatis, their estate is converted into a joint estate for life, and not into a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct, because their estate has been … from a particular wife, if she die without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct. Only a donee in tail-special can become such a tenant, for if the

Personal property

in the first tenant in tail at his birth. See Re Lord Chesham, (1909) 2 Ch 310. Joint tenancy and tenancy in common may subsist in the case of personal property, though now tenancy in common of

co-owner

co-owner : one of two or more individuals or entities owning property together (as by joint tenancy, tenancy in common, or tenancy by the entirety)

Entire tenancy

Matched in: Term Entire tenancy

Several tenancy

Matched in: Term Several tenancy

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