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Non Tenuit

Lat He did not hold. This is the name of a plea iu bar in re* plevin, by which the plaintiff alleges that he did not hold in manner and form as averred, belng given in answer to an avowry for rent In arrear. See Rosc. Real Act 638

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)