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joint tenant

noun

, Law.
  1. one of two or more persons who hold property in joint tenancy.


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The father was the head of the family, not the joint tenant with the wife of a house nor the tenant at will of his wife.

Of land and the means of labour, he should be joint-proprietor with others, or rather joint-tenant with them under the Crown.

This was embarrassing to the gentleman who was joint-tenant of the dingy parlour.

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