Register v. Coleman

How courts have described this case

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• holding joint tenancy deed failed to contain alleged additional terms and conditions of an oral agreement and therefore did not satisfy statute of frauds
• noting that joint tenant can sever the joint tenancy by conveying his interest but cannot convey the entire estate unless authorized by co-tenant
• “When a statute creates a right and also creates a remedy for the right created, the remedy thereby given is exclusive.”
• “adverse” connotes that one in possession of land claims exclusive rights thereto

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).