Joint Tenancy in UK Law

  • Stack v Dowden
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Abril 2007
    ...... 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 ......
  • Jones v Kernott
    • Supreme Court
    • 09 Noviembre 2011
    ...... 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 ......
  • Goodman v Gallant
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Octubre 1985
    ...... "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 ......
  • Gillett v Holt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 Marzo 2000
    ...... 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 ......
  • Davis (A.P.) (Respondent) v Johnson (A.P.) (Appellant)
    • House of Lords
    • 09 Marzo 1978
    ......, to exclude him from the council flat in Hackney of which they were joint tenants. . . 22 The relevant facts can be stated briefly. The .... . 29 It is the mistress's legal right under a joint tenancy to continue in occupation of the premises that distinguishes the instant ......
  • Pettitt v Pettitt
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Abril 1969
    ...... purposes must, in the absence of agreement, be regarded as the joint property of the spouses or as belonging to them in equal shares, no matter ... names the presumption is in effect no more than a joint beneficial tenancy. . . 91 Then in Re Young 28 Ch. D. 705 the spouses, who died ......
  • Harrow London Borough Council v Qazi
    • House of Lords
    • 31 Julio 2003
    ...... 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 ......
  • Bernard v Josephs
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Marzo 1982
    ......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) ......
  • Eves v Eves
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 Abril 1975
    ......He said that, as she was under 21, it could not be in joint names and had to be in his name alone: and that. But for her age, it would ..., leading to a half interest for each party as soon as the joint tenancy is severed. Why, it may be asked, should the interestbe any different if ......
  • Ainsbury v Millington
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 1987
    ......The Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council granted them the joint tenancy of a council house at 24 Marlowe Close, Popley. In September 1984 ......
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