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Tempest

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

A violent or furious storm; in the deversion, lie is so called because a current of wind rushing with extreme vio- in avowries and pleadings it is specially lence, and usually accompanied with rain or shown in what manner he is tenant in consnow.

29 U. C. C. B. 84.

See Act of God; tradistinction to veray tenant, who is call- Lightning. ed simple tenant. See Hamm. N. P. 393; Veray. As to tenant paravail, see Para vail.