Unities meaning

A legal fiction left over from common law—a creation of a unity for joint tenancy or ownership. The four unities are interest, possession, time, and title. See also joint tenancy.
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Requires that each and every joint tenant’s interests are identical in kind, breadth, and time.
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The necessity that each joint tenant must be entitled to possess the whole property in its entirety.
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The necessity that all joint tenants’ individual interests must vest simultaneously.
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Requires that all joint tenants acquire their interests by means of a single document.
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Plural form of unity.
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Sentence Examples

  • Sweden became completely a slave to the periwigs of literature, to the unities and graces of classical France.

  • Apart from the positive and permanent value of the higher unities which he succeeds in establishing, the light and suggestiveness of his discussions and treatment of the great points at issue in all the principal fields of human thought, unsatisfactory as many of his positions may be considered, make him one of the most helpful and instructive of modern thinkers.

  • When Virchow wrote, in 1850, " every animal presents itself as a sum of vital unities, every one of which manifests all the characteristics of life," he expressed a doctrine whose sway since then has practically been uninterrupted.

  • The process of development is the formation of higher unities, and the last stage is the identification of the world with God.

  • On this assumption he deduces that in being conscious of our mental states we are conscious of soul not merely as it appears, but as it is in itself, and therefore can infer similar souls, other psychical unities, which are also things in themselves.

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