[CO- 3 c.] A joint tenant. Hence Co-tenancy, Co-tenure.
1822–56. De Quincey, Confess., Wks. 1890, III. 307. Halting, therefore … I waited for my solitary co-tenant of the Cop.
1884. Law Rep. 12 Q. Bench Div. 194. headnote, One tenant … has no right of action against his co-tenant.
1875. Maine, Hist. Inst., iv. 112. The ‘Judgments of Co-Tenancy’ is a Brehon law-tract…. It puts, at the outset, the question,—‘Whence does Co-Tenancy arise?’ The answer given is, ‘From several heirs and from their increasing on the land.’
1860. [see CO- 3 a] Co-tenure.
