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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOINT (through Fr. from See also:Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)  , that which joins two parts together or the See also:place where two parts are joined . (See See also:JOINERY; See also:JOINTS.) In See also:law, the word is used adjectivally as a See also: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, 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 of the claimant (see See also:GUARANTEE) . So an See also:interest or See also:estate given to two or more persons for their joint lives continues only so See also:long as all the lives are in existence . Joint-tenants are co-owners who take together at the same See also:time, by the same See also:title, and without any difference in the quality or extent of their respective interests; and when one of the joint-tenants See also:dies his See also: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, when the co-tenants have each a See also:separate interest which on See also: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 .

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