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Unity Of Title

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 essentials of a joint estate; the estate of all the tenants being created by one and the same act. witness be heard at all. Code, 4. 20. 9; 3 BI. Comm. 370. UNIUSCUJUSQUE CONTRACTUS INITIum spectandum est, et causa. The beginning and cause of every contract must be considered. Dig. 17. 1. 8; Story, Bailm. § 56.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Exists where the title of all the owners was created by a single act, as in a joint tenancy.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

applied to joint tenants, to signify that they hold their property by one and the same title, while tenants in common may take property by several titles. Williams, Reai Prop. 134.

Defined under Unity in Black's Law Dictionary.

Defined under Unity of time in Black's Law Dictionary.