Joint Tenancy in UK Law
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Jones v Kernott
... ... the determination of the beneficial interests in a house acquired in joint names by an unmarried couple who intended it to be their family home. Its ... into joint names indicates both legal and beneficial joint tenancy, unless and until the contrary is proved": Lady Hale, at para 58; Lord ... ...
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Stack v Dowden
... ... where there is a single legal ownership and those where there is joint legal ownership. There must be consistency of approach between these two ... That case also establishes that severance of a beneficial joint tenancy results in a beneficial tenancy in common in equal shares. Lord Denning's ... ...
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Re Dennis (a Bankrupt)
... ... a bankruptcy governed by the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ("the 1914 Act"), a joint tenancy was severed by the act of bankruptcy of one of the joint tenants ... ...
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Goodman v Gallant
... ... "to hold the same unto the Purchasers in fee simple as beneficial joint tenants". Clause 2 began as follows: "The Purchasers hereby ... give you notice of my desire to sever as from this day the joint tenancy and equity of and in the property described in the Schedule hereto now ... ...
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Carr-Glyn v Frearsons (A Firm)
... ... her nephew, the appellant's brother Mr Peter Burchell, as beneficial joint tenants. The testatrix died without having severed the joint tenancy. On ... ...
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Cedar Holdings Ltd v Green
... ... 12 Preston Road, Leytonstone, a freehold house registered in their joint names, of which they were joint beneficial owners. The property was ... of it, the first defendant effectively severed the joint tenancy in the proceeds of sale subsisting under the statutory trusts so as to ... ...
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Gillett v Holt
... ... made a declaration as to the existence of a protected agricultural tenancy). This appeal is concerned only with the main action, but the ... this approach Mr Holt asked whether the tenancy could be put in the joint names of himself and Mr Gillett. The college declined that also ... ...
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Bernard v Josephs
... ... It was conveyed to them on the 21st October, 1974 in their joint names. It was a simple transfer by the vendor as beneficial owner "to Dion ... were tenants in common, but not so as to sever their joint tenancy in equity" ... 8 That is followed by section 36 (2) ... ...
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Kay v Lambeth City Council; Leeds City Council v Price
... ... freehold owners of a house which they let to Mr Qazi and his wife as joint tenants. After some six years she left, with their daughter, and she gave notice to quit, which brought the tenancy to an end. He applied to the local authority for the grant of a tenancy to ... ...
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Harrow London Borough Council v Qazi
... ... owners of the house, and let it to Mr Qazi and Mrs Saman Qazi as joint tenants under a secure tenancy beginning in January 1992. In 1998 Mrs ... ...
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