Real Estate Dictionary

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joint tenancy: ownership of real estate between two or more parties who have been named in one conveyance as joint tenants.

judgment: the formal decision of a courts on the respective rights and claims of the parties to an action or suit

junior lien: an obligation, such as second mortgage, that is subordinate in right or lien priority to an existing lien on the same realty.