Legal Term: NE DONA PAS, or NON DEDIT,

Definition: pleading. The general issue in formedon; and is in the following formula: "And the said C D, by J K, his attorney, comes and defends the right, when, &c., and says, that the said E F did not give the said manor, with the appurtenances, or ally part thereof, to the said G B, and the heirs of his body issuing, in manner and form as the said A B hath in his count above alleged.And of this the said C D puts himself upon the country." 10 Went. 182.

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