Debet Et Solet

Debet et solet. If a person sued to recover any right, whereof his ancestor was disseised by the tenant or his ancestor, then he uses only the word debet alone in his writ, it is not apt to use solet because his ancestor only was deceased, and the custom discontinued; but if he sued for anything then first denied him, he used debet et solet, by reason that his ancestor before him and he himself usually enjoyed the thing sued for, until the present refusal of the tenant, Reg. Brev. 140; Fitz. N. B. 98.