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Definition of Cotenant
1. Noun. One of two or more tenants holding title to the same property.
Definition of Cotenant
1. n. A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Definition of Cotenant
1. Noun. (property law) A person who shares a tenancy with another; a co-owner of an interest in property. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cotenant
1. one who is a tenant with another in the same place [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotenant
Literary usage of Cotenant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"Refusal to Allow cotenant to Occupy. —A tenant in common is ousted by a cotenant
when the ... In such case he can maintain ejectment against the cotenant. ..."
2. The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1903)
"In some states, a view of the statute has been taken different from that above
referred to, and one tenant is allowed to recover from a cotenant having ..."
3. Cotenancy and Partition: A Treatise on the Law of Co-ownership as it Exists by Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"Suit by cotenant under disability, without joining the others, $ 377. ... But a
cotenant may be called upon to account for rents and profits received by him ..."
4. The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1920)
"lease by cotenant, 683, 684. license by cotenant, 685. to cut trees, 686.
minerals, rights as to, 686, 990. notice to cotenant by record of deed, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Action of Ejectment and by George William Warvelle (1905)
"Under this line of decisions a deed of this character will not constitute an
actual ouster of the cotenant nor lay the foundation for an adverse holding.88 ..."
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