Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In common law, a term defining the tenure in an action for waste done after the termination of the tenancy.
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Examples
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Itaque peregrinus qui debitum tenuit iter, veniat à finibus deserti in primam ciuitatem Iudeæ, quæ dicitur Berseba: est vicus grandis Hebron inde miliario vergens ad
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Tres autem anguli domus statim combusti fuerunt, angulo in quo steti cum ossibus saluo remanente: Supra me autem ignis se tenuit in modum aeris lucidi, nec descendit quamdiu ibi persistebam; quàm citò autem cum ossibus exiui, statim tota pars illa sicut aliæ priores igne consumpta est, et multa alia loca circumadiacentia combusta sunt.
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Profligatis Alemanis, Hispanis, et Francis, eor鷐que Regibus pro spectaculo bestijs obiectis, Galliam subiectam tenuit: Tres Helen� matris auunculos Brittanos, Leolinum, Traherum, et Marium, quos c鎡eris semper fidentiores habuerat in suis fortunis, Italis �
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Itaque peregrinus qui debitum tenuit iter, veniat � finibus deserti in primam ciuitatem Iude�, qu� dicitur Berseba: est vicus grandis Hebron inde miliario vergens ad
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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* [7835] Tantane nos tenuit generis fiducia vestri?
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* [8010] Tantane nos tenuit generis fiducia vestri?
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Londoniarum, et ibi tenuit placita de die in diem ... et incontinenti ... ilia terminavit nullo juris ordine observato contra leges civitatis et etiam contra leges et consuetudines cujuslibet liberi hominis de regno Anglie.
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Secundus, Hanc Vicariam bis 20 et octo annos tenuit.
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De consimilibus, vel pejoribus, tenuit quadraginta conclusiones.
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Eborashira, cum feodis militum & alijs libertatibus & consuetudinibus, ita liberè & honorificè sicut idem Eadwinus ea tenuit.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
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