223. Modes of effecting partition of tenancies in common: in general.

Land belonging to co-owners may be partitioned by agreement if all the parties are sui juris or have power conferred on them by law or by act of a predecessor in title1. In default of agreement any co-owner could, before 1926, commence a partition action and the court could order a partition or could order a sale of the land in lieu of partition. Alternatively, before 1926, an order for partition could in certain cases