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Tenendum

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat To hold; to be holden. The name of that formal part of a deed which ls characterized by the words "to hold." It was formerly used to express the tenure by which the estate granted was to be held; but, sinco all frcehold tenures have been converted into socage, the tenendum ls of no further use, and is therefore joined in the habendum,—"to have and to hold."

2 Bl. Comm. 298 ; 4 Cruise, Dig. 26.