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Unity Of Interest

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

One of the properties of a joint estate; all the joint tenants being entitled to one period of duration or quantity of interest in the lands. 2 Bl. Comm. 181.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Identity of duration.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

This term is applied to joint tenants, to signify that no one of them can have a greater interest in the property than each of the others, while, in the case of tenants in common, one of them may have a larger Share than any of the others. Williams, Real Prop. 134, 139.

Defined under Unity in Black's Law Dictionary.