To: Connie, Clifford, Paul, David, Eddie, Alan, Christine, John, Lillian and Karena - who replied directly And also to: Mike Dahlberg, Stan Mapstone and the Googlin' Guru Himself - Hugh Watkins - who all replied directly to the List Thank you all for your replies to my query. I hope that you don't mind a collective "thank you" note. The consensus of opinion on this question is that, put simply (yes, Clifford, I know that you warned of the risk of oversimplification!) Tenants in Common for a property (or any other thing, for that matter) may bequeath their share in the property to an heir, without reference to the holder(s) of the other share(s). On the other hand, a property held in Joint Tenancy passes automatically and intact on the decease of one of the Tenants to the other Tenant or Tenants. Put another way, from the view point of the property, where the property is held by Joint Tenants, the property remains as an undivided single unit, whereas if held by Tenants in Common, the property is in several parts that are held by the individual shareholders, although the shares are not demarcated in any way. If I have inadvertently misrepresented your views, then I apologise for that. Thank you all again for your help. I have added your names to the list of acknowledgements in the book that I am currently writing on my family history, for which the wills mentioned in my initial email request are most relevant. Regards Richard Richard J. Prankerd, PhD Senior Lecturer Phone: INT + (613) 9903-9517 Victorian College of Pharmacy Fax: INT + (613) 9903-9583 (A Faculty of Monash University) email: [email protected] 381 Royal Parade Parkville VIC 3052 AUSTRALIA Researching: PRANKERD and variants in Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, Bristol, London, Hamps and Berks, not to mention Australia I use Archive CD Books to help with my research http://www.archivecdbooks.org