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- noun Plural form of
entirety .
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Examples
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JY: We're performing our The Grand Illusion album and our Pieces Of Eight album both in their entireties, in the same song orders as they appeared on the original vinyl LPs back in '77 and' 78.
Mike Ragogna: The Joy of Regeneration: A Conversation with Styx's James "J.Y." Young Mike Ragogna 2010
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Our reaction to the approaching miscarriage of justice was largely commendable. 630,000 petitions were delivered to the Georgia board of parole, and numerous entireties were made to stay the execution on behalf of Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, and former FBI director and death penalty supporter William Sessions.
Elizabeth Nicholas: Georgia on my Mind Elizabeth Nicholas 2011
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The lower court ruled in favor of the current property owners, holding that since one cannot hold a life estate as tenants by the entireties, the 1982 deed was void.
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A few treat all entireties property as marital, regardless of source (e.g., Maryland); a few ignore the retitling completely (e.g., Virginia); but most have some form of presumption that a transfer into a joint title is a gift.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Really Romantic Property Law Reason to Get Married: 2009
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Married or civil unioned people considering placing their property into tenancy by the entireties, or any other form of joint title, should be aware that the transaction may very well change the way in which the property would be divided upon divorce.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Really Romantic Property Law Reason to Get Married: 2009
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Neither the Lester version nor the new Donner Cut in their entireties have truly done justice to this idea, though there are many moments in both of these films that do approach the greatness of the story concept.
Happy 70th Birthday, Superman!! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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If either husband or wife, or both, owning an estate by the entireties, should be mentally incompetent to convey such property, and the sale or mortgage of the property is necessary or desirable, statutory procedure is provided for its valid conveyance through the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the lands are situated.
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Considerable real estate is held by the entireties in North Carolina, and the legal profession has been
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Their needs and their supplies were entireties not to be separated by any conception of theirs.
Squirrel. 1900
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Living of the present hour, they lost a little of their ephemeral personality to attach themselves better to the dead lying under the slabs and to continue them more exactly, to form with them and their future descendants only one of these resisting entireties, of almost infinite duration, which is called a race.
Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886
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