Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Contenement

Hist. 1. Freehold land held by a feudal tenant, esp. land used to support the tenant. 0 Magna Carta exempted this property from seizure."Contenement, (contenementum) seemeth to be the free hould land, which lyeth to a mans tenement or dwelling house, that is in his owne occupation. For magna carta. ca. 14. you have these words: A free man shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the quantity of the fault: and for a great fault, after the maner thereof, saving to him his contenement or free hould. And a merchant likewise shal be amerced saving to him his merchandies: and any other villains then owers, shal be amerced saving his wainage ...." John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).