Riddle v. Harmon

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing how the four unities operate in conjunction with the “two-to-transfer” rule, and refusing to “adher[e] to [these] cumbersome feudal law requirements”
• recognizing how the four unities operate in conjunction with the “two-to- transfer” rule, and refusing to “adher[e] to [these] cumbersome feudal law requirements”
• recognizing principle whereby involuntary alienation of one joint tenant’s interest severs the joint tenancy
• discarding the “archaic rule” preventing one joint tenant from severing a joint tenancy “without the use of an intermediate device” because the rule would “defeat the clear intention of the grantor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).