Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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estate in common

See tenancy in common under TENANCY.

in common

Shared equally with others, without division into separate ownership parts. See tenancy in common under TENANCY.

ownership in common

Ownership shared by two or more persons whose interests, at death, pass to the dead owner's heirs or successors.

probate in common form

Hist. Probate granted in the registry, without any formal procedure in court, on the executor's ex parte application. ( This type of probate is revocable.

tenancy in common

A tenancy by two or more persons, in equal or unequal undivided shares, each person having an equal right to possess the whole property but no right of survivorship. - Also termed common tenancy; estate in common. Cf. joint tenancy. "The central characteristic of a tenancy in common is simply that each tenant is deemed to own by himself, with most of the attributes of independent ownership, a physically undivided part of the entire parcel." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in land anal Future Interests 54 (2d ed. 1984).

tenant in common

See TENANT.