NON DEMISIT, pleading. A plea proper to be pleaded to an action of debt for
rent, when the plaintiff declares on a parol lease. Gilb. Debt, 436, 438;
Bull. N. P. 177; 1 Chit. Pl. 477.
2. It is improper to plead such plea when the demise is stated to have
been by indenture. Id.; 12 Vin. Ab. 178; Com. Dig. Pleader, 2 W 48.