Pretensed

or PRETENCED (Law Lat. praetensum).

In old English law

Pretended; claimed. Where a party out of possession of lands or tenements claimed or sued for the possession, he was said to have a pretensed right and title (jus praetensum). Cowell; Dyer, 74b. enacts that no one shall sell or purchase any pretended right or title to land, unless the vendor has received the profits thereof for one whole year before such grant, or has been in actual possession of the land, or of the reversion or remainder, on pain that both purchaser and vendor shall each forfeit the value of such land to the king and the prosecutor.

See 4 Broom & H. Comm. 150.