Fleming v Hargreaves and Another - [1976] 1 NZLR 123

Property law — Real property and chattels real — Joint tenancies and tenants in common — Husband and wife joint tenants of residential property — Husband assigning his interest severing joint tenancy, wife and assignee became tenants-in-common in equal shares — Partition — Assignee obtaining order for sale of residential property in lieu of partition — Property Law Act, s 140.