Tenens
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
I. The tenant. Tener,/?-., Tenere, /. To hold; to keep. Tenet, tenuit: he holds, he has held; v. Waste. Tenor est qui legem dat feudo, I. The tenure regulates the law of the feud.