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Continuando

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In pleading. A form of allegation in which the trespass, criminal offense or other wrongful act cemplained of is charged to have been committed on a specified day and to have "continued" to the present time or is averred to have been committed at divers days and times within a given period or on a specified day and on divers other days and times between that day and another. This is called "laying the time with a continuando."

Benson v. Swift, 2 Mass. 52; People v. Sullivan. 9 Utah, 195, S3 Pac. 701.