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Tenendas

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

The name of a clause in charters of heritable rights, which derives its name from Its first worths, "tenendas prœdictas terras;" it points out the superior of 'whom the lands are to be holden, and expresses the particular tenure.

Ersk. Inst 2, 3, 24.