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Joint tenants must take title under the same instrument and that instrument is called a deed. Under the common law joint tenants must acquire the same interest at the same time. A joint tenancy is based on the legal theory that the tenants own one estate- together. Therefore, when one dies their interest is extinguished and the Survivor is now the sole owner of the estate.

Note also that property can be acquired as joint tenants pursuant to a will that specifically states the property so devised is to be held as joint tenants.

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