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• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

JOINT (through Fr. from See also:

• LAT

Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)  , that which joins two parts together or the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place where two parts are joined . (See See also:

• JOINERY

JOINERY; See also:

• JOINTS

JOINTS.) In See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the word is used adjectivally as a See also:

• TERM

term applied to obligations, estates, &c., implying that the rights in question relate to the aggregate of the parties joined . Obligations to which several are parties may be several, i.e enforceable against each independently of the others, or See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint, i.e. enforceable only against all of them taken together, or joint and several, i.e. enforceable against each or all at the See also:

• OPTION (Lat. optio, choice, choosing, optare, to choose)

option of the claimant (see See also:

• GUARANTEE (sometimes spelt " guarantie " or " guaranty "; an O. Fr. form of " warrant," from the Teutonic word which appears in German as wahren, to defend or make safe and binding)

GUARANTEE) . So an See also:

• INTEREST

interest or See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate given to two or more persons for their joint lives continues only so See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long as all the lives are in existence . Joint-tenants are co-owners who take together at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, by the same See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title, and without any difference in the quality or extent of their respective interests; and when one of the joint-tenants See also:

• DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT (1755-1822)

dies his See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share, instead of going to his own heirs, lapses to his co-tenants by survivorship . This estate is therefore to be carefully distinguished from tenancy in See also:

• COMMON

common, when the co-tenants have each a See also:

• SEPARATE

separate interest which on See also:

• DEATH

death passes to the heirs and not to the surviving tenants . When several take an estate together any words or facts implying severance will prevent the tenancy from being construed as joint .