Sentence examples for joint tenant from inspiring English sources

Upon the death of one joint tenant, the surviving tenant or tenants take the whole estate.

The lease was not signed by the other joint tenant, Thomas's wife.

Both owners have access to the assets during life, and when one joint tenant dies, everything goes to the survivor.

If one joint tenant conveys his interest to a third party, then the remaining joint tenant and the grantee become tenants in common, thus destroying the element of survivorship.

Compare In re Estate of Paulson, supra, [possession by one joint tenant is possession for the benefit of both].

We have held that each joint tenant has the right of enjoyment to the extent of his or her interest.

You can own the property as joint tenants or as tenants-in-common.

There is only a true sharing of the driveway when there is a separately deeded right for the ownership of the driveway, in addition to both neighbors' ownership of their individual properties, and as such, the driveway is titled in the neighbors as tenants-in-common or joint tenants.

Scotland noticeably lacks those old villages that evolved in England from medieval hamlets of joint tenants.

Jones's problems have arisen because she bought as "joint tenants".

The other way unmarried individuals can own property is as joint tenants with right of survivorship.