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tenancy in common<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
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1. A tenancy<\/a> by two or more persons<\/a>, in equal or unequal undivided shares, each person having an equal right to possess the whole property but no right of survivorship.<\/strong> \u2014 aka common tenancy<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; estate in common<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Cf. joint tenancy. [1]
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1. That tenancy whereby two more more persons are entitled to land in such manner that they have an undivided possession, but several freeholds or interest.\u00a0 20 Am J2d Coten \u00a7 22<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A tenancy characterized by a single essential unity \u2014 that of possession, or the right to possession, of the common property.\u00a0 20 Am J2d Coten \u00a7 23<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A tenancy in common of personal property is essentially similar to such a tenancy of real property, each tenant in common owning and possessing an undivided interest in the whole property.\u00a0 Re Engel’s Estate, 413 Pa 475, 198 A2d 505<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A tenancy in which two more more persons own an undivided interest in an estate in land, for EXAMPLE, in a fee simple estate or a life estate, or in personal property, for EXAMPLE, in a savings account.\u00a0 As opposed to joint tenants, tenants in common have no right to survivorship; when a tenant in common dies, her interest passes to her heirs rather than to her cotenant or cotenants.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from A.C. Freeman’s Cotenancy and Partition<\/em><\/a> (2d ed. 1886):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIf there be a doubt whether an estate was, at its creation, a joint-tenancy or a tenancy in common; or if, conceding the estate to have been a joint-tenancy at its creation, there be a doubt whether there has not been a subsequent severance of the jointure in all such cases equity will resolve the doubt in favor of tenancy in common.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from Thomas F. Bergin and Paul G. Haskell’s Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests<\/em><\/a> (2d ed. 1984):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe central characteristic of a tenancy in common is simply that each tenant is deemed to own by himself, with most of the attributes of independent ownership, a physically undivided part of the entire parcel.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [5]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0Deluxe Tenth Edition\u00a0by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner<\/a>. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>with Pronunciations
\n<\/span><\/em>Third Edition<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[4]: A.C. Freeman, Cotenancy and Partition<\/em><\/a> 67 (2d ed. 1886).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[5]: Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests<\/em><\/a> 54 (2d ed. 1984).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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