“This estate by entirety is an anomaly, and it is perhaps an oversight that the Legislature has not changed it into a cotenancy, as has been done in so many states. This not having been done, it still possesses here the same properties and incidents as at common law. Long v. Barnes.,87 N. C. 333; West v. Railroad, at this term [140 N. C. 620, 53 S. E. 477, 6 Ann Cas. 300]. At common law ‘the fruits accruing during their joint lives would belong to the husband’ (Simonton v. Cornelius, 98 N. C. 437 [4 S. E. 38]; hence the husband could mortgage or convey it during the term of their joint lives —that is. the right to receive the rents and profits; but neither could incumber it or convey it so as to destroy the right of the other, if survivor, to receive the land itself unimpaired.”