tenancy in commonnoun [ C or U ]
ukusplural tenancies in common PROPERTY, LAWa legal agreement in which two people or groups share ownership of a piece of property, but each person's share of the property is not passed automatically to the other tenant or tenants in common when they die:
The title will convert to Tenancy in Common upon divorce.
Today, especially in tenancies in common, unmarried persons are referred to as a single man, or a single woman.
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joint tenancy
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tenant in common