L. Fr. To make subject to a service or servitude Britt c. 54. … [Read more...]

Whole; without division, separation, or diminution. Entire contract. See CONTRACT. Entire day. This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation of law, comprises all the twenty-four hours, beginning and ending at twelve o'clock at night. … [Read more...]

In old English practice. This was a writ made use of in a form of real action brought to recover the possession of lands from one who wrongfully withheld the same from the demandant. Its object was to regain the possession of lands of which the demandant, or his ancestors, had been unjustly deprived by the tenant of the freehold, or those under whom he claimed; and hence it … [Read more...]

(verb) - To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail.(noun) - A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to all the heirs. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 66; Cowell; 2 BL Comm. 112, note. Entail, in legal treatises, is used to signify an estate tail, especially with reference to the restraint which such an … [Read more...]

The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to husband and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety. 2 Kent, Comm. 132 ; 4 Kent, Comm. 362. Parceners, on the other hand, have not an entirety of interest, but each is properly entitled to the whole of a distinct moiety. 2 Bl. Comm. 188. The word is also used to … [Read more...]