Title 34
Property

Chapter 15
Partition

R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-15-2

§ 34-15-2. Cotenants of estates for life or years.

All joint tenants, coparceners, and tenants in common, who now are or hereafter may be actually seised or possessed of any estate for life or years in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, may be compelled to make the partition between them of such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to continue until the estate of some of the parties to the lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall determine, and no longer, by civil action.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 265, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 330, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 381, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 586, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 34-15-2.