Proclamation, Fine With

Proclamation, Fine with. To render a fine more universally public and less liable to be levied by fraud or covin, it was directed by 4 Hen. 7, c. 24 (in confirmation of a previous statute), that a fine after engrossing should be openly and solemnly read and proclaimed in count (during which all pleas should cease), sixteen times, viz., four times in the term in which it was made, and four times in each of the three succeeding terms, which was reduced to once in each term by 31 Eliz. c. 2, and these proclamations were endorsed on the record. Abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833.