IN RETENTIS

By SovConn | June 22, 2013

in retentis (in ri-ten-tis). [Law Latin “among things withheld”] Scots law. Subject to reservation. • Evidence might be taken in retentis if, for example, the witness were mortally ill, and then be set aside until the proper time to produce it.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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