Taylor v. Canterbury

Today the majority abrogates a limitation on the ability of a joint tenant to defeat his co-tenant's right of survivorship, which has been the law of this jurisdiction since before statehood. Following the lead of California, and a handful of other jurisdictions already doing so, the majority concludes, for the first time, that this venerable principle of property law-that a joint tenant may not unilaterally destroy the tenancy without alienating his own interest-no longer serves a useful purpose and has, in effect, already ceased to exist. Because I disagree with the majority's understanding…