Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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).