Section 1 Introduction

• Library: Real Estate Fundamentals 2011

Partition is a change in the ownership of property whereby each cotenant of the whole property becomes the sole owner of a portion of that property. Snyder v. Elliott, 71 S.W. 826 (Mo. 1903). In the language of the law, the partition of property transforms concurrent estates into two or more estates in severalty. Stockwell v. Stockwell, 172 S.W. 23, 25–26 (Mo. 1914). In other words, partition is the process by which two or more owners of one tract of land divide the land between themselves. If the cotenants...