title to property (usually real property, but it can apply to personal property)
held by two or more persons, in which each has an "undivided interest" in the property
and all have an equal right to use the property, even if the percentage of interests
are not equal or the living spaces are different sizes. Unlike "joint tenancy,"
there is no "right of survivorship" if one of the tenants in common dies, and each
interest may be separately sold, mortgaged or willed to another. Thus, unlike a
joint tenancy interest, which passes automatically to the survivor, upon the death
of a tenant in common there must be a probate (court supervised administration)
of the estate of the deceased to transfer the interest (ownership) in the tenancy
in common.
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