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TENENDAS Definition & Legal Meaning

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In Scotch law. The name of a clause in charters of heritable rights, which derives its name from its first words, “tenendas pr (Edict a a terras;” it points out the superior of whom the lands are to be holden. and expresses the particular tenure. Ersk. Inst. 2, 3, 24.

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