Legal Term: NIL HABUIT IN TENEMENTIS,

Definition: pleading. A plea by which the defendant, wbo is sued by his landlord in debt for rent uppa-a lease, but by deed indented, by,which he denies his landlord s title to the premises, that he has no interest in the tenements. 2 Lill. Ab. 214; 12 Vin. Ab. 184; 15 Vin. Ab. 556 Woodf. L. & T. 330; Com. Dig. Pleader, 2 W 48 Co. Litt. 47 b; Dane s Ab. Index, h. t. 3 E. C. L. R. 169, n.; 1 Holt s R. 489.

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