(1) A conveyance of an interest in land may operate to pass the possession or right to possession thereof, without actual entry, but subject to all prior rights thereto.

(2) A conveyance of an interest in land to a corporation sole by its corporate designation without words of limitation shall pass to the corporation the whole interest which the transferor had power to convey, unless a contrary intention appears in the conveyance.

(3) A conveyance of an interest in land to two or more persons, except a conveyance in trust, shall create an interest in common and not in joint tenancy, unless it is expressed in such conveyance that the transferees shall take jointly, or as joint tenants, or to them and the survivor of them, or unless it manifestly appears from the tenor of the instrument that it was intended to create an interest in joint tenancy.