Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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non est factum

[Latin "it is not his deed"] Hist. A denial of the execution of an instrument sued on. "The general issue in covenant is 'non est factum,' which is a formal denial that the deed is the deed of the defendant." Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of Common-Law Pleading ยง 187, at 331 (Henry Winthrop Ballantine ed., 3d ed. 1923).