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Unity Of Seisin

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

The condition which exists where a person seised of land which is subject to an easement, profit a prendre, or similar right, also becomes seised of the land to which the easement or other right is annexed. The term is usually applied to cases where the seisin is that of a tenant in fee simple, and is equally high or predurable in both pieces of land, so that the easement or other right is extinguished by the unity of seisin.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The merger of one seisin in another, as when the owner of a servient tenement acquires the dominant tenement also.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

where a person seised of land which is subj'ect to an easement, profit a prender, or similar right, also becomes seised of the land to which the easement or other right is annexed. Sweet.

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. Comm. 181.

Defined under Unity in Black's Law Dictionary.