Joint Tenants

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.

Two 'ot more persons to whom are granted lands or tenements to hold in fee-simple, fee-tail, for life, for years, or at will. 2 Bl. Comm. 179. Persons who own lands by a joint title created expressly by one and the same deed or will. 4 Kent, Comm. 357. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 180.

Defined under Tenant in Black's Law Dictionary.

Two or moré persons to whom are granted lands or tenements to hold in fec-simple, fee-tail, for life, for years, or at will, 2 Bl. Comm. 179. Persons who own lands by a joint title created expressly by one and the same deed one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one aud the same undivided possession. 2 BI. Comm. 180.

estates, are two or more persons to whom are granted lands or tenements to hold in fee simple, fee tail, for life, for years, or at will, 2 Black. Com. 179. The estate which thcy thus hold is called an estate in joint tenancy.