from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
NE DONA PAS, or NON DEDIT, pleading. The general issue in formedon; and is
in the following formula: "And the said C D, by J K, his attorney, comes and
defends the right, when, &c., and says, that the said E F did not give the
said manor, with the appurtenances, or ally part thereof, to the said G B,
and the heirs of his body issuing, in manner and form as the said A B hath
in his count above alleged.' And of this the said C D puts himself upon the
country." 10 Went. 182.