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NON EST FACTUM Definition & Legal Meaning

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Lat. A plea by way of traverse, which occurs in debt on bond or other specialty, and also in covenant. It denies that the deed mentioned in the declaration is the defendant’s deed. Under this, the defendant may contend at the trial that the deed was never executed in point of fact; but he cannot deny its validity in NON EST FACTUM

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