Tenementis Legatis

An ancient writ, lying to the city of London, or any other corporation (where the old custom was that men might devise by will lands and tenements, as well as goods and chattels), for the hearing and determining any controversy touching the same. Reg. Orig. 244. TENEMENTUM (Law Lat. from tenere, to hold).

In old English law. A tenement; a thing held by service; a fee, fief, or feudal estate; an estate which a tenant holds of a lord. Spelman. Devenio homo vester, de tenemento quod de vobia teneo, I become your man, of the tenement which I hold of you. Bracton, fol. 80. l Aberum tenemen- TENENDAS (Lat.)

In Scotch law. The name of a clause in charters of heritable rights, which derives its name from its first words, tenendas praedictas terras, and expresses the particular tenure by which the lands are to be holden. Ersk. Inst. bk. 2, tit. 3, note 0. TENENDUM (Lat.) That part of a deed which was formerly used in expressing the tenure by which the estate granted was holden; but since all freehold tenures were converted into socage, the tenendum is of no further use, even in England, and is therefore joined to the habendum in this manner, — ^to have and to hold. The words "to hold" have now no meaning in our deeds. 2 BL Comm. 298. See "Habendum."

An ancient writ, lying to the city of London or any other corporation, (where the old custom was that men might devise by will lands and tenements, as well as goods and chattels,) for the hearing and determining any controversy touching the same. Reg. Orig. 244.