Unity
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
1.
The peculiar characteristic of an estate in joint tenancy is a four-fold unity — of interest, title, time, and possession.
See Tenant.
2.
At common law, a husband and wife were one person, and he that person. Upon this principle of " unity of person " depended all the legal rights, duties, and disabilities that either party acquired by the marriage. Hence, the wife could neither sue nor be sued without joining the husband; and neither could convey directly to the other — a principle which does not now operate, at least in the case of a voluntary transfer as a settlement upon the wife.i
See Husband.
3.
Assent to the same thing in the same sense. See Agreement; Assent.