ENTIRETY

The whole, in contradistinction tQ_ a moiety or part only. When land ls conveyed to husban!l and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both' are seised ot 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 BI. Comm. 188. The word is also used to designate that which the law considers as one whole, and riot capable of being divided into parts. Thus, a judgment, it is held, is an entirety, and, if void as to one of the two defendants, cannot be valid as to the other. So, if a contract is an entirety, no part of the consideration is due until the whole has been performed. [s. 434]