Terre Tenant
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
terre tenant
[Anglo-French terre tenaunt freeholder, from Old French terre land + tenant holding, from present participle of tenir to hold]
: one in actual possession of land
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: one who purchases land after a lien of mortgage or judgment has attached used chiefly in the law of Pennsylvania
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