Joint Tenants
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Two or more persons who acquire together lands or tenements to be held jointly between them in equal shares, the interests of all uniting and forming one ownership. Joint tenants differ from tenants in common, in that the title of the former must have been acquired at the same time, by the same conveyance or act, while the latter hold by several titles; and also in that the shares of the former are equal, while those of the latter need not be so.