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Chapter 7: CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE
Subchapter 1: ESTATES PASSING
§159. Conveyances to 2 or more persons
Conveyances not in mortgage and devises of land to 2 or more persons create estates in common, unless otherwise expressed. Deeds in which 2 or more grantees are named as joint tenants shall be construed as vesting an estate in fee simple in such grantees with right of survivorship.
A conveyance of real property by the owner thereof to himself and another or others, or by the owners thereof to themselves or to themselves and another or others, as joint tenants or with the right of survivorship, or which otherwise indicates by appropriate language the intent to create a joint tenancy between such owner or owners and such other or others or between themselves by such conveyance, shall create an estate in joint tenancy in the property so conveyed between all of the grantees, including the grantor. Estates in joint tenancy so created shall have and possess all of the attributes and incidents of estates in joint tenancy created or existing at common law and the rights and liabilities of the tenants in estates in joint tenancy so created shall be the same as in estates in joint tenancy created or existing at common law. [1973, c. 788, §164 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
1973, c. 788, §164 (AMD).
