In all estates, real and personal, held in joint tenancy, the part or share of any tenant dying shall not descend or go to the surviving tenant or tenants, but shall descend or be vested in the heirs, executors, or administrators, respectively, of the tenant so dying, in the same manner as estates held by tenancy in common.
Code 1858, § 2010 (deriv. Acts 1784 (Apr.), ch. 22, § 6); Shan., § 3677; Code 1932, § 7604; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-107.
Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), §§ 439, 629.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 8 Tenn. Juris., Cotenancy, § 2; 14 Tenn. Juris., Husband and Wife, §§ 7, 11; 25 Tenn. Juris., Wills, §§ 137, 155.
Law Reviews.
Real Property — Tenancy by the Entirety — Joint Rights of Husband and Wife, 42 Tenn. L. Rev. 815 (1975).