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NON DETINET Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

Lat. He does not detain. The name of the general Issue in the action of detinue. 1 Tidd, Pr. 045; Berlin Mach. Works v. Alabama City Furniture Co., 112 Ala. 48S, 20 South. 418. The general issue In the action of replevin, where the action is for the wrongful detention only. 2 Burrill, Pr. 14. Non differunt quae concordant re, tametsi non in verbis iisdem. Those things do not differ which agree In substance, though not In the same words. Jenk. Cent p. 70, case 32.

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