Severance

estates. ‘The act by which any one of the unities of a joint tenancy is effected, is so called; becausze the estate 13 no longer a joint tenancy, but is severed. A severance may be effected in various ways; namely, 1, by partition, which ig either voluntary or compulsory; 2, by alienation of one of the jointtenants, which turns the estate into a tenancy in common; 3, by the purchase or descent of all the shares of the joint-tenants, so that the whole estate becomes vested in tone only.

Com. Dig. Estates by Grant, K 5; 1 Binn. R. 175.