non tenuit

non tenuit (non ten-yuu-wit). [Latin] In an action of replevin, the plaintiff’s plea in bar to the defendant’s assertion of a rightful taking of property (avowry), whereby the plaintiff denies holding the property in the manner and form alleged. [Cases: Replevin 64.]

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