Meaning & use
Tenendum
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In property law, the clause of a deed that specifies the tenure by which land is to be held.
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The old conveyance included a tenendum clause stating the land was held 'in free and common socage.'
Modern deeds rarely include a tenendum, since most historical forms of land tenure have been abolished.
A note on using this word
From Latin, meaning 'to be held'; it is a largely obsolete feature of English property law surviving mainly in historical documents.
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