Mamalis v. Bornovas

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring a joint tenant’s actions to display a clear intent to sever
• “Beginning with several eighteenth and nineteenth century English decisions ... the idea began to emerge that the termination of a joint tenancy should be controlled by the parties’ intention as manifested by some overt act or express agreement.”
• divorce decree and stipulation considered together clearly and affirmatively expressed the parties’ intentions
• “In determining whether an act of a joint tenant is sufficient to terminate or ‘sever’ a joint tenancy, the courts have historically resolved the question upon an analysis of whether the act destroyed one of the essential four unities of time, title, interest or possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mann v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1975-05-12· cited 28×
• Bradley v. Mann
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1974-08-26· cited 17×
• Stebbins v. Stebbins
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1981-12-08· cited 17×
• Mangus v. Miller
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1974-12-17· cited 14×
• Grabowski v. Grabowski
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1980-11-13· cited 14×
• Lancellotti v. Lancellotti
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1977-08-15· cited 13×
• Miller v. Miller
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1990-08-29· cited 13×
• In Re the Estate of Hoffman
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-10-16· cited 10×
• Napier v. Jones by and Through Reynolds
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1996-05-17· cited 10×
• In RE MARRIAGE OF: LUTZKE v. Lutzke
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1985-01-31· cited 9×
• Young v. McIntyre
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-12-10· cited 7×
• Dubois v. Dubois
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1982-06-11· cited 7×
• Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co. v. Pike
  First Circuit· 2019-02-19· cited 6×
• Estate of Stewart v. Commissioner
  U.S. Tax Court· 1982-12-22· cited 5×
• McBee v. Crosby
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1981-08-06· cited 4×
• Edwin Smith, LLC v. Clark
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2010-10-19· cited 3×
• Estate of Croteau v. Croteau
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1998-12-08· cited 3×
• Edwin Smith, L.L.C. v. Synergy Operating, L.L.C.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2012-08-24· cited 2×
• Edwin Smith, LLC v. Clark
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2010-12-20· cited 2×
• Doran v. Nally
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-09-18· cited 2×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McDonald v. Morley
  California Supreme Court· 1940-04-23· cited 45×
• Duncan v. Suhy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1941-11-18· cited 34×
• Douglas v. Douglas
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1968-05-29· cited 32×
• Witzel v. Witzel
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1963-10-29· cited 30×
• CARSON v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1960-01-23· cited 29×
• Summerlin v. Bowden
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1970-10-22· cited 27×
• In Re Frolich Estate
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1972-09-29· cited 16×
• Bouley v. Nashua
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1964-11-30· cited 9×
• In Re Estate of Allaire
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1961-05-31· cited 6×
• Swett v. Swett
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1870-06-15· cited 6×