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NON TENUIT Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

Lat. He did not hold. This is the name of a plea in bar in replevin, by which tlie plaintiff alleges that he did not hold in manner and form as averred, being given in answer to an avowry for rent in arrear. See Rose. Real Act 638.

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