Survivorship

Survivorship - (See joint tenancy.)
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Survivorship: (See joint tenancy.)
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Survivorship
1. The automatic transfer of the title or the ownership of property or asset in case of death or non-existence of the other person in joint tenancy. 2.

Right of Survivorship: The right of joint owners to receive the other's share of property upon the death of the other owner.
Rules of Evidence: The rules that pertain to the deliverance of evidence in hearings or depositions.

Community Property With Right Of Survivorship A way for married couples to hold title to property, available in some community property states.

Survivorship - (See joint tenancy.)
Suspension - A temporary loss of the right to practice law by an attorney. (See disbarment or censure.)
Sustain - A court ruling upholding an objection or a motion.

Survivorship
Another name for joint tenancy.
Sustain
A court ruling upholding an objection or a motion.

survivorship
n. the right to receive full title or ownership due to having survived another person. Survivorship is particularly applied to persons owning real property or other assets, such as bank accounts or stocks, in "joint tenancy.

Survivorship - Another name for joint tenancy, in which one owner becomes entitled to property because he or she has survived all other owners.

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The survivorship of two or more is to be proved by facts, and not by any settled Iegal rule, or prescribed presumption. 5 B. Adolp. 91; 27 E. C. L. R. 45; Cro. Eliz. 503 Bac. Ab. Execution D; 2 Phillim. 261; 1 Mer. R. 308; 3 Hagg. Eccl. R.

RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP: In a joint-tenancy, the property automatically goes to the co-owners if one of the co-owners dies. A co-owner in a joint tenancy cannot give away his or her share of the property.
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Right of survivorship
The right of a surviving joint tenant to take ownership of a deceased joint tenant's share of the property.
See joint tenancy.

Joint-and-last-survivorship option
Definition
: an option in which the insurer makes periodic payments to two or more persons (as a husband and wife) of the proceeds or usu. cash value of a policy until the death of the last survivor ...

Presumption of Survivorship
When two or more persons perish by a common accident, when a mother and her new-born child are found dead, and in a few analogous cases, important civil rights may depend upon the question which lived the longest; ...

The primary incident of joint tenancy is survivorship, by which the entire tenancy on the decease of any joint tenant remains to the survivors, and at length to the last survivor.

Joint tenancy: Ownership of property by two or more people with a right of survivorship. If one owner dies, his share passes to the surviving owners so that, eventually, the entire property is held by one person.

When deeds are taken as joint tenants with rights of survivorship (JTWROS) or joint tenants in common (TIC), any co-owner can file a petition for partition to dissolve the tenancy relationship.

joint tenancy (with rights of survivorship) two or more owners share equal ownership and rights to the property. If a joint owner dies, his or her share of the property passes to the other owners, without probate. In joint tenancy, ownership of ..

Joint tenancy - A form of legal co-ownership of property (also known as survivorship). At the death of one co-owner, the surviving co-owner becomes sole owner of the property.

tenancy by the entiretyis a special type of joint ownership of real property that is available to husband and wife only. Joint tenants with right of survivorship have equal rights in the property, ...

A form of ownership where each owner holds an undivided interest with a right of survivorship. Upon the death of any joint owner, their interest passes automatically to the survivors.

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Tenant in Common: An individual who owns an undivided interest in real or personal property with one or more people, with no right of survivorship.
Terminate: Come to an end.
Terminated: Ended; canceled; concluded ...

Both spouses have the right to enjoy the entire property, and when one spouse dies, the surviving spouse gets title to the property (called a right of survivorship). It is similar to joint tenancy, but it is available in only about half the states.

that both spouses have the equal rights to use/benefit (enjoyment) from their entire property. Upon the death of one spouse, the surviving spouse retains title and all rights to use/benefit from the property. This is their "right of survivorship." ...

nieces and nephews may inherit, depending on their degree of kinship (closeness of family relationship), state laws of descent and distribution, or whether the deceased person lived in a community property state (in which the wife has a survivorship ...

See also: Right, Property, Law, Joint, State