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TEND
In old English law. To tender or offer. Cowell.

In old English law. To tender or offer. Cowell. Less...
TENEMENTAL LAND
Land distributed by a lord among his tenants, as opposed to the demesnes which were occupied by himself and his servants. 2 Bl. Comm. 90.

Land distributed by a lord among his tenants, as opposed to the demesnes which were occupied by himself and his servants. 2 Bl. Comm. 90. Less...
TENEMENTIS LEGATES
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.

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. Less...
TENDER
An offer of money; the act by which one produces and offers to a person holding a claim or demand against him the amount of money which he considers and admits to be due, in satisfaction of such claim or demand, without any stipulation or condition. Salinas v. Ellis, 26 More...

An offer of money; the act by which one produces and offers to a person holding a claim or demand against him the amount of money which he considers and admits to be due, in satisfaction of such claim or demand, without any stipulation or condition. Salinas v. Ellis, 26 S. C. 337, 2 S. E. 121; Tompkins v. Batle, 11 Neb. 147, 7 N. W. 747, 38 Am. Rep. 361; Holmes v. Holmes, 12 Barb. (N. Y.) 144; Smith v. Lewis, 26 Conn. 119; Noyes v. Wyckoff, 114 N. Y. 204, 21 N. E. 158. Tender, in pleading, is a plea by defendant that he has been always ready to pay the debt demanded, and before the commencenient of the action tendered it to the plaintiff, and now brings it into court ready to be paid to him, etc. Brown. -Legal tender. That kind of coin, money, or Circulating medium which the law compels a creditor to accept in payment of his debt, when tendered by the debtor in the right amount.- Tender of amends. An offer by a person who has been guilty of any wrong or breach of contract to pay a sum of money by way of amends. If a defendant in an action make tender of amends, and the plaintiff decline to accept it, the defendant may pay the money into court, and plead the payment into court as a satisfaction of the plaintiff's claim. Mozley ft Whitley.-Tender of Issne. A form of words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. The common tender of an issue of fact by a defendant is expressed by the words: "and of this he puts himself upon the country/ Steph. Pi. 54, 230. Less...
TENEMENT
This term, in Its vulgar acceptation, is only applied to houses and other buildings, but in its original, proper, and legal sense it signifles everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature, whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal, kind. More...

This term, in Its vulgar acceptation, is only applied to houses and other buildings, but in its original, proper, and legal sense it signifles everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature, whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal, kind. Thus, liberum tenementum, frank tenement, or freehold, is applicable not only to lands and other solid objects, but also to' offices, rents, commons, advowsons, franchises, peerages, etc. 2 Bl. Comm. 16; Mitchell v. Warner, 5 Conn. 517; Oskaloosa Water Co. v. Board of Equalization, 84 Iowa, "407, 51 N. W. 18. 15 L. R. A. 296; Field Hlggins, 35 Me. 341; Sacket v. Wheaton, 17 Pick. (Mass.) 105; Lenfers v. Henke, 73 111." "408, 24 Am. Rep. 263." "Tenement" is a word of greater extent than "land," Including not only land, but rents, commons, and several other rights and interests issuing out of or concerning land. 1 Steph. Comm. 158, 159. Its original meaning, according to some, was "house" or "homestead." Jacob. In modern use it also signifies rooms let in houses. Webster. -Dominant tenement. One for the benefit or advantage of which an easement exists or is enjoyed.-Servient tenement. One which is subject to the burden of an easement existing for or enjoyed by another tenement. See EASEMENT. Less...
TENENDAS
In Scotch law. The name of a clause in charters of heritable rights, which derives its name from its flrst words, "tenendas prasdictas terras;" it points out the superior of whom the lands are to be holden, and expresses the particular tenure. Ersk. Inst 2, 3, 24.

In Scotch law. The name of a clause in charters of heritable rights, which derives its name from its flrst words, "tenendas prasdictas terras;" it points out the superior of whom the lands are to be holden, and expresses the particular tenure. Ersk. Inst 2, 3, 24. Less...
TENENDUM
Lat. To hold; to be holden. The name of that formal part of a deed which is characterized by the words "to hold." It was formerly used to express the tenure by which the estate granted was to be held; but, since all freehold tenures have been converted into socage, More...

Lat. To hold; to be holden. The name of that formal part of a deed which is characterized by the words "to hold." It was formerly used to express the tenure by which the estate granted was to be held; but, since all freehold tenures have been converted into socage, the tenendum Is of no further use, and is therefore joined in the habendum,-"to have and to hold." 2 o Bl. Comm. 298; 4 Cruise, Dig. 26. Less...
TENENS
A tenant; the defendant in a real action.

A tenant; the defendant in a real action. Less...
TENENTIBUS IN ASSISA NON ONERANDIS
A writ that formerly lay for him to whom a disseisor had alienated the land whereof he disseised another, that he should not be molested in assize for damages, if the disseisor had wherewith to satisfy them. Reg. Orig. 214.

A writ that formerly lay for him to whom a disseisor had alienated the land whereof he disseised another, that he should not be molested in assize for damages, if the disseisor had wherewith to satisfy them. Reg. Orig. 214. Less...
TENERE
Lat. In the civil law. To hold; to hold fast; to have in possession; to retain. In relation to the doctrine of possession, this term expresses merely the fact of manual detention, or the corporal possession of any object, without involving the question of title; while habere (and especially possidere) More...

Lat. In the civil law. To hold; to hold fast; to have in possession; to retain. In relation to the doctrine of possession, this term expresses merely the fact of manual detention, or the corporal possession of any object, without involving the question of title; while habere (and especially possidere) denotes the maintenance of possession by a lawful claim; i, e., civil possession, as distinguished from mere natural possession. Less...

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