Habemus Optimum Testem

CONFItentem reum. We have the best witness, a confessing defendant. Fost. Crim. Law, 243. See 2 Hagg. 315; 1 Phil. Ev. 397. HABENDUM (Lat. for having). In conveyancing. The clause usually following the granting part of the premises of a deed, which defines the extent of the ownership in the thing granted to be held and enjoyed by the grantee. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 642. It commences with the words "to have and to hold." In Law French, these words are rendered "aver et tener," or "a aver et tener," and in Latin, "habendum et tenendum."