Court Opinion

ID: 9683440
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:28:37.069948+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:47.846544
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GODDARD, Presiding Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the reasoning and the result reached by the majority opinion, but write separately to point out that in my view the language contained in the deed from Mrs. Avery to her son is a contradiction in terms because of the recital in the deed that the conveyance is “for the purpose of creating a tenancy in common, with a right of survivor-ship.”
I recognize that it has been held that both a tenancy in common and joint tenancy are included in the tenn co-tenancy. Hallmark v. Tidwell, 849 S.W.2d 787 (Tenn.App.1992). However, traditionally there is no right of survivorship in a tenancy in common as there was in a joint tenancy prior to the enactment of T.C.A. 66-1-107,1 which abolished joint tenancy survivorship. In this regard, I do note that a right of survivorship in a joint tenancy continues to be recognized when, as here, such an intent is expressed by the grantor.

. It has also been held that the common law unities — time, title, interest and possession — have become academic since enactment of the statute. Jones v. Jones, 185 Tenn. 586, 206 S.W.2d 801 (1947).