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Definition: JOINT TENANCY |
JOINT TENANCY1. (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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: JOINT TENANCY |
| English words defined with "JOINT TENANCY": Estate in severalty ♦ Joint tenant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "JOINT TENANCY": tenancy by the entirety, tenancy in common. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 propriedade comum (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references) tenencia en común (common ownership, joint ownership), posesión en común (common ownership, joint ownership), ocupación en común (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references) samäganderätt (common ownership, joint ownership). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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