Unity
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
In the law of estates, thepeculiar characteristic of an estate held by several in joint tenancy, and which is fourfold; viz., unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession. In other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession.
2 Bl. Com. 180.
Unity of interest. One of the properties of a joint estate, all the joint tenants being entitled to the same period of duration or quantity of interest in the lands.
2 Bl. Com. 181.
Unity of possession. One of the essential properties of a joint estate, each of the tenants having the entire possession as well of every parcel as of the whole.
2 Bl. Com. 182.
Unity of possession is where a man hath a right to two estates, and holds them together jointly in his own hands; as if a man take a lease of lands from another at a certain rent, and after, he buys the feesimple, this is a unity of possession, by which the lease is extinguished, because that he who had before the occupation only for his rent is now become lord and owner of the land.
Termes de la Ley
Unity of time. One of the essential properties of a joint estate; the estates of the tenants being vested at one and the same period.
2 Bl. Com. 181.
Unity of title. One of the essential properties of a joint estate. The estate of all the tenants must be created by one and the same act, whether legal or illegal.
2 Bl. Com. 181.