veray tenant

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veray tenant - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  VERAY TENANT, or TRUE TENANT, Eng. law. One who holds a fee simple; in 
  pleadings, he is called simply tenant. He differs from a tenant by the 
  manner in this, that the latter holds a less estate than a fee which remains 
  in the reversioner. 
       2. A veray tenant by the manner is the same as tenant by the manner, 
  with this difference only, that the fee simple, instead of remaining in the 
  land, is given by him or by the law, to another. Ham. N. P. 394.