Joint Tenancy
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An estate in joint tenancy is an estate in fee-simple, fee-tail, for life, for years, or at will, arising by purchase or grant totwoormorepersons. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and heid by one and the same undivided posses« sion. The grand incident of joint tenaney is survivorship, by whieh the entire tenuney on the decease of any joint tenant remains to the survivors, and at length to the last survivor. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p, 1292, A joint interest is one owned by several persons in equal shares, by a title created by a single will or transfer, when expressly declared in the will or transfer to be a joint tenancy, or when granted or devised to executors or trustees as joint tenants, Civil Code Cal. § 683.