Does a separate grantor and grantee have to be separate grantors and grantees?

In the recent case of Burke v. Stevens, 264 A.C.A. 30, 35, 70 Cal.Rptr. 87, the court impliedly recognized the need for a separate grantor and grantee when it held that a wife had effectively terminated her joint tenancy interest through a deed of her interest to a third party, even though the conveyances by the wife were effected without the knowledge and consent of her husband, who was the remaining joint tenant; the reviewing court noted that the wife had complied with the requisite steps to terminate the joint tenancy inasmuch as she had executed a power of attorney designating her counsel as her attorney-in-fact, with the specific right and duty to terminate the joint tenancy; in compliance with the authority thus conferred, the attorney conveyed the wife's interest in the property by an unacknowledged and unrecorded deed to a

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Foreign authority also exists to the effect that a person cannot convey to himself alone, and if he does so, he still holds under the original title. (26 C.J.S. Deeds 13, p. 600; Strout v. Burgess, 144 Me. 263, 68 A.2d 241, 247, 12 A.L.R.2d 939.)