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 182 a feoffment was made to the ue of a man, and uch wife as he hould afterwards marry, for term of their lives, and he afterwards married; in this cae it eems to have been held that the huband and wife had a joint etate, though veted at different times : becaue the ue of the wife's etate was in abeyance and dormant till the intermarriage; and, being then awakened, had relation back, and took effect from the original time of creation. Latly, in joint-tenancy, there mut be an unity of poeion. Joint-tenants are aid to be eied per my et per tout, by the half or moiety, and by all; that is, they each of them have the entire poeion, as well of every parcel as of the whole. They have not, one of them a eiin of one half or moiety, and the other of the other moiety; neither can one be excluively eied of one acre, and his companion of another; but each has an undivided moiety of the whole, and not the whole of an undivided moiety.

thee principles, of a thorough and intimate union of interet and poeion, depend many other conequences and incidents to the joint-tenant's etate. If two joint-tenants let a verbal leae of their land, reerving rent to be paid to one of them, it hall enure to both, in repect of the joint reverion. If their leee urrenders his leae to one of them, it hall alo enure to both, becaue of the privity, or relation of their etate. On the ame reaon, livery of eiin made to one joint-tenant, hall enure to both of them : and the entry, or re-entry, of one joint-tenant is as effectual in law as if it were the act of both. In all actions alo relating to their joint etate, one joint-tenant cannot ue or be ued without joining the other. But if two or more joint-tenants be eied of an advowon, and they preent different clerks, the bihop may refue to admit either; becaue neither joint-tenant hath a everal right of patronage, but each is eied of the Rh