Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety

§ 19–503. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety Where there is not sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously the property so held shall be distributed, or descend as the case may be, one-half as if one had survived and one-half as if the other had survived. Where there are more than two joint tenants and all have so died the property thus distributed or descended shall be in tile proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants. The term “joint tenants” includes owners of property held under circumstances which entitled one or more to the whole of the property on the death of the others.