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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

ESTATES IN. Estates of which two or more persons form one heir.

1 Washb. Real Prop. 414.

The title to such an estate is always by descent. The shares of the tenants need not be equal. The estate is rare in America, but sometimes exists.

3 Ind. 360; 4 Grat