Flory v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a deed to a man and woman who were not legally married, as tenants by the entireties, was ineffective as to the creation of that tenancy but was effective to create a joint tenancy with right of survivorship”
• stating that “tenancy [by the entireties] can exist only between husband and wife”
• “in tenancy by the entireties [it is] impossible for one cotenant ... to compel a partition of the property”
• tenancy by the entireties reflects intent to make property inalienable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).