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Entirety

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Fr. entierU, from entier, whole.] The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conyeyed to husband and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are sdsed of the entirety.

2 Kent's Com, 132. 4 Id. 362.

Parceners, on the other hand, haye not an entirety of interest, but each is properly entitled to the whole of a distinct moiety.

2 Bl, Com, 188.