Definition : Horizontal co-ownership

A divided co-ownership comprising private portions and common portions situated one beside another (for example, townhouses). The actual presence of a building is not a prior condition to the establishment of such a co-ownership as the existence of land, wich in turn has been divided suffices.This type of co-ownership is the least used type of co-ownership.

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