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JOINT TENANCY

Definition: JOINT TENANCY

JOINT TENANCY

1. (Law), a tenure by two or more persons of estate by unity of interest, title, time, and possession, under which the survivor takes the whole. --Blackstone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: JOINT TENANCY

DomainDefinition

Finance

A form of ownership by two or more parties who share equal rights in and control of property, with the survivor or survivors continuing to hold all such rights on the death of one or more of the tenants. Joint tenancy is a common form of ownership when two or more persons jointly open a savings account. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: JOINT TENANCY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Participation

Noun: participation; cotenancy, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: JOINT TENANCY

English words defined with "JOINT TENANCY": Estate in severaltyJoint tenant. (references)
Specialty definitions using "JOINT TENANCY": tenancy by the entirety, tenancy in common. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: JOINT TENANCY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

joint tenancy

59

joint tenancy with right of survivorship

9

deed joint tenancy

5

california joint tenancy

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: JOINT TENANCY

Language Translations for "JOINT TENANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

faellesbesiddelse (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onverdeeld eigendom. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhteisvuokraus (common ownership, joint ownership), yhteisomistus (common ownership, joint ownership), yhteishallinta (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references)

   

French

  

propriété indivise, propriété en indivision, propriété conjointe, possession commune (joint ownership). (various references)

   

German

  

ungeteiltes Vermogen, Gemeinbesitz (common ownership, joint ownership), Besitz zur gesamten Hand (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references)

   

Italian

  

proprietà comune (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ointjay enancytay

   

Portuguese

  

propriedade comum (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tenencia en común (common ownership, joint ownership), posesión en común (common ownership, joint ownership), ocupación en común (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

samäganderätt (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: JOINT TENANCY

Misspellings

"JOINT TENANCY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joint tennancy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: JOINT TENANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-j-n-n-n-o-t-t-y"

-3 letters: continent, injectant, nonentity.

-4 letters: cotenant, innocent, intonate, taconite, tenacity.

-5 letters: aconite, actinon, ancient, connate, contain, content, cyanine, cyanite, enation, jaconet, joyance, nictate, taction, tenancy, tetanic, tonetic, tontine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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