tenet
    n 1: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without
         proof [syn: dogma, tenet]

Tenet \Ten"et\, n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See
   Tenable.]
   Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a
   person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or
   of Cicero.
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         That al animals of the land are in their kind in the
         sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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         The religious tenets of his family he had early
         renounced with contempt.                 --Macaulay.
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   Syn: Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See
        Dogma.
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TENET. Which he holds. There are two ways of stating the tenure in an action 
of waste. The averment is either in the tenet and the tenuit; it has a 
reference to the time of the waste done, and not to the time of bringing the 
action. 
     2. When the averment is in the tenet the plaintiff on obtaining a 
verdict, will recover the place wasted, namely, that part of the premises in 
which the waste was exclusively done, if it were done in a par only, 
together with treble damages. But when the averment is in the tenuit, the 
tenancy being at an end, he will have judgment for his damages only. 2 
Greenl. Ev. 652.