William Blackstone: Of Estates in Severalty, Joint-Tenancy, Coparcenary, and Common

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   1. Litt. § 277.
   2. See pag. 137.
   3. Co. Litt. 188.
   4. Litt. § 277.
   5. Ibid. § 285.
   6. Ibid. § 278.
   7. Co. Litt. 188.
   8. Dyer. 340. 1 Rep. 101.
   9. Litt. § 288. 5 Rep. 10.
   10. Quilibet totum tenet et nihil tenet; scilicet, totum in communi, et nihil separatim per se. [Each holds the entirety and yet holds nothing; that is, the entirety in common, and nothing separately by itself.] Bract. 1. 5. tr. C. 26.
   11. Co. Litt. 214.
   12. Ibid. 192.
   13. Ibid. 49.
   14. Ibid. 319. 364.
   15. Ibid. 195.
   16. Co. Litt. 185.
   17. 3 Leon. 262.
   18. 1 Leon. 234.
   19. 2 Inst. 403.
   20. Co. Litt. 200.
   21. Litt. § 280. 281.
   22. Bracton, 1. 4. ir. 3. c. 9. § 3. Fleta. 1. 3. c. 4.
   23. Co. Litt. 190. Finch L. 83.
   24. 2 Lev. 12.
   25. Co. Litt. 188. 193.
   26. § 290.
   27. Thus, by the civil law, nemo invitus compellitur ad communionem [no one is compelled to a joint possession against his will]. (Ff. 12. 6. 26. § 4.) And again: si non omnes qui rem communem habent, sed certi ex his, dividere desiderant; hoc judicium inter eos accipi potest [if only some of those who hold a thing in common desire a partition, this judgment may be received between them]. (Ff. 10.3.8.)
   28. Litt. § 292.
   29. Jus accrescendi praefertur ultimae voluntati. [The right of survivorship is preferred to the last will.] Co. Litt. 185.
   30. Litt. § 287.
   31. Cro. Eliz. 470.
   32. 2 Rep. 60. Co. Litt. 182.
   33. Litt. § 302. 303.
   34. Nihil de re accrescit ei, qui nihil in re quando jus accresceret habet. [No part of the estate accrues to him, who has nothing in the estate when the right accrues.] Co. Litt. 188.
   35. Litt. § 294.
   36. Ibid. § 304.
   37. 1 Jones. 55.
   38. 4 Leon. 237.
   39. Co. Litt. 252.
   40. Litt. § 241. 242.
   41. Ibid. § 265.
   42. Co. Litt. 163.
   43. Co. Litt. 164.
   44. Ibid. 188.
   45. 2 Inst.403.
   46. Litt. § 254.
   47. Co. Litt. 164. 174.
   48. Ibid. 163, 164.
   49. Litt. § 309.
   50. § 241.
   51. § 243 to 264.
   52. Co. Litt. 166. 3 Rep. 22.
   53. By statute 8 & 9 W. III. c. 3. An easier method of carrying on the proceedings on a writ of partition, of lands held either in joint-tenants, parcenary, or common, than was used at the common law, is chalked out and provided.
   54. Co. Litt. 164, 165.
   55. See pag. 115.
   56. Bracton. l. 2. c. 34.Litt. § 266 to 273.
   57. l. 2. t. 14. c. 15.
   58. Britton. c. 72.
   59. § 267.
   60. Litt. § 268.
   61. Litt. § 274.
   62. Ibid. 275.
   63. Ibid. 292.
   64. Litt. § 293.
   65. Ibid. 295.
   66. Ibid. 309.
   67. Ibid. 283.
   68. Salk. 392.
   69. Litt. § 298.
   70. Ibid. 299.
   71. See pag. 182
   72. Poph. 52.
   73. 1 Equ. Cas. Abr. 291.
   74. 1. P. Wms. 17.
   75. 3 Rep. 39.1 Ventr. 32.
   76. pag. 185, & 186.
   77. Co. Litt. 199.
   78. Ibid. 200.
   79. Litt § 311.
   80. Co. Litt. 197.