JDA - see Joint Defense Agreement.

Joint tenancy - refers to ownership of land by two or more persons, which ownership meets all the following requirements:

  1. Unity of title: all of them have acquired their title from the same grantor by the same instrument of grant;
  2. Unity of Interest: all of them have acquired the same estate or interest in the lands, i.e., one joint tenant cannot have, say, an estate for life while the other has it for years;
  3. Unity of Possession: each of them is entitled to the possession of the whole of the land; and
  4. Unity of Time: the estate of each is for the same duration of time.
The principal characteristic of joint tenancy is the right of survivorship. I.e., on the death of one tenant, interest passes to the surviving tenant and not to the heirs of the deceased tenant. While it is open to a joint tenant to convey his interest by a transfer inter vivos, he cannot make a testamentary disposition of same.

Joint Work - refers to a work prepared by two or more authors with the intention that their contributions be merged into inseparable or interdependent parts of a unitary whole.

JPO - see Joint Protective Order.

Jt. Stip. - see Joint Stipulation.

Jure uxoris - Means "in the right of a wife."

Juristic Person - refers to and includes a firm, corporation, union, association, or other organization capable of suing and being sued in a court of law.

Jus tertii - refers to the right of a third person. The term is used to denote certain pleas that are not available as defenses. E.g., it is not open to one sued for trespass to land to allege that the plaintiff is not the true owner but that a third person is unless the trespasser is claiming right under such third person.

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