What is the difference between a joint tenancy and a tenancy in common?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gorski v. Gorski, 2011 MBQB 125 (CanLII):
As Steel J.A. noted in Simcoff v. Simcoff, 2009 MBCA 80: 62. The most significant and important characteristic that distinguishes a joint tenancy from a tenancy in common is the right of survivorship, by which, if one joint tenant dies without having obtained a separate share in his lifetime, his interest is extinguished and accrues to the surviving tenant, whose interest is correspondingly enlarged…
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