Prajna Capital - An Investment Guide

Joint ownership is when two or more persons hold title to the same property. In case of coparcenary, the members have a common and an equal interest in the ancestral property. Any co-owner can transfer his share in the property to an outsider or another co-owner, and the transferee steps into the shoes of the co-owner. The transferee becomes the co-owner. A co-owner is entitled to three essentials of ownership - right to possession, right to use and right to dispose off the property. Therefore, if a co-owner is deprived of his property, he has a right to be put back in possession. Such a co-owner will have an interest in every portion of the property and has a right irrespective of his quantity of share, to be in possession jointly with others. This is also called joint-ownership. Co-ownership can be changed to sole ownership through partition. The term co-owner is wide enough to include all kinds of ownerships such as joint tenancy, tenancy in common, coparcenary, membership ...