{"id":1971,"date":"2018-10-10T06:12:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askanacademic.com\/uncategorized\/what-are-the-four-unities-of-coownership-land-law-131\/"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T10:33:54","slug":"what-are-the-four-unities-of-coownership-land-law-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askanacademic.com\/law\/what-are-the-four-unities-of-coownership-land-law-131\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the four unities of co-ownership?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question<\/h2>\n<p>What are the four unities of co-ownership?<\/p>\n<h2>Answer<\/h2>\n<p>The four unities that must exist between co-owners are: possession, interest, title and time.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Unity of Possession<br \/>\nThe joint tenants must have the right to possess the property in its entirety. This is somewhat seen as the foundation of co-ownership as the property cannot be divided in a manner that would separate the property or affect the joint tenants\u2019 share. The tenants must have the right to enjoy the property as a whole, concurrently.<\/li>\n<li>Unity of Interest<br \/>\nThe co-owners must have identical rights over the land. They must have the same share and if they are joint tenants, they must have equal shares in the land. For tenants in common however, they can have unequal shares in the property.<\/li>\n<li>Unity of Title<br \/>\nAll co-owners must have had their interests outlined in the same document or acquired in the same manner.<\/li>\n<li>Unity of Time<br \/>\nThe co-owners must have acquired or \u2018vested\u2019 their interests at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explanation of the requirements for co-ownership of a property in land law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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